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No, and even superficial scrutiny demonstrates that that's not the case.
I'm so unfathomably sick of listening to people moan and moan about soulslikes.
Yes, the fanbase is rancid. Yes, the subgenre is wildly overrepresented and often treated in a very formulaic way and are liable to suck, like most trend-chasing games do. These complaints are fair game.
But very often people go several steps further because they have so much resentment over these facts that they extend this to attacking a serviceable genre and always interjecting how much they hate it and how superior they are to it in every discussion about it. I don't really care for shoot-em-ups. Do you know what I do? Move on with my fucking life instead of writing dissertations about how they are fake and evil games and dropping into every shmup conversation to tell them how much it sucks.
I wrote two short paragraphs about why I don't enjoy souls like combat on a post showcasing an opinion on souls-like combat
You are the one who has written a dissertation and derided shoot em ups on an unrelated post
I didn't deride shmups, I merely said I don't like them. I think it's ridiculous to try to make up rules about why this or that video game isn't actually a video game short of there literally not being such a thing as player choice.