I'm a newbie to everything but Kirby, which has been in my life for as long as video games have. One of my favorite games of all time is Kirby and the Amazing Mirror and it always shall be. Sure Kirby is easier than a children's educational game, but it's something I love. And perhaps I stare at it through nostalgia goggles (even though I don't because I still pick up a Kirby game every once in a while and enjoy myself owo)
When it comes to any other series, I'm behind the curve. Outside Kirby there's nothing I'd ever beaten before I turned like thirteen or fourteen. I generally avoid discussions that try to compare different games in a series
As for alleged "genwunners," just watch the bottom left corner of this (skip to around 1:30 or so):
It nails it pretty well
But honestly, everyone has a different opinion of how the series went, and it depends on what you're looking for it the games. There's really no right answer and there's elitists for every category of the games. I've beaten a game from every gen except II, and if you take into account technological limitations, they generally live up to expectations... Then again my expectations for Pokemon are pretty low
When talking on Fire Emblem, I've been into the series since I played Smash. I was curious about Marth and them so I looked into them and found a series I liked. I'm no veteran, just a casual scrub, but I do enjoy the gameplay
Yes, you are a moron for liking Fates, or to be more specific, liking it as the best in the series without anything to compare it to. Calling something "best" when it's also the "only" is like, not how things work. You really should go buy Awakening, it's easier than most of the franchise (and it removes endless soft-resetting for those who don't have the patience to minmax) but still retains the same general gameplay philosophy. I haven't played very much FE myself TBH, most of my time has gone into Rekka no Ken, DS Shadow Dragon, and Awakening. But the issue with Fates isn't that it makes things simpler, it's that it drops so many things that have helped make the series good