Obligatory.

nah that's wrong
Soul vs Soulless came about because of the Spyro remakes
The original spyro games had a lot of thought put into their design while the remakes were mindlessly whacked together by pajeets using stock assets

The developers failed to realize there's more to a remake than "HEY IT LOOKS PRETTIER AND MORE DETAILED". There was actual mechanisms behind the originals. Pic related for Spyro.

For Crash: https://all-things-andy-gavin.com/2011/02/02/making-crash-bandicoot-part-1/