It's about 50/50 for me while there are games like reborn that are amazing there are also a lot of games that are bad particularly with lag. Pokemon franchise attempts to please all ages and genders, it brings unique machanices to the playing field I loved the SOS battling, in X/Y I liked using field moves and getting stuff for it and hoard battles, they also bring beautiful graphics most fangames can't touch however fangames come out for the niches like veterans with hard difficulty or pokegirls as such an argument can be made they are better however most relay on older graphics, for me personally I enjoy both and look at them fairly equally as they both have pros and cons.