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[Kriven]

that doesn't meaningfully change the argument at all

what is the problem with questioning the merit of a genre's tropes, exactly

it is perfectly possible for a genre in and of itself to be "bad" or lacking in quality, either because of the prevalence of negative or questionable tropes, or because the the things that define that genre are in and of themselves misguided

judge quality on a specific level, but don't delude yourself into thinking that "genre" is some kind of sacred umbrella that instantly negates criticism

Genre is simply too big of a label to really criticize. There are too many things that can fall under the label. It doesn't do any good to criticize a genre. You have to criticize things at a specific game-by-game. You can't say "Every single game would be better without a miss chance" because that's simply wrong. You could say "Pokemon could be better without a miss chance" and maybe be right, or "Why the fucking hell does Borderlands have a miss chance?"

But at a point where you want to change genre conventions, well, it's already been done. A new genre was named and labeled specifically because someone else warped the genre already. If you don't like the tropes that define a genre, don't participate in that genre.