>>23324156
Most early Heisei Rider quality is a director/producer thing. Producer approves and suggests material and the director sets the mood and ambience. Those are the qualities are what people like and remember.
As much as I like Inoue, Takumi saying "I may not have dreams, but I can protect them" followed by Kiba saying "Those without dreams are doomed to suffer, your sins will bury you" was only part of what made the Protector of Dreams scene so good - the fact there was a third contribution to the dialogue with Kaido playing his guitar until he physically couldn't and them compositing the guitar strings over the stairway Takumi was fighting the Orphnoch on was genius and that was a good chunk on Ryuta Tasaki who was absolutely killing it at the time as a director.
Similarly, Godai and Daguva's bloody, suitless throwdown in the snow while Daguva laughs maniacally and Godai's desperately trying to cling to both life and his sanity while clad in their suits' colors was entirely a product of Takatera and Ishida discussing and changing how the endgame of Kuuga would go, Arakawa just composed the dialogue for it.
Kabuto was a terribly written show by a pair of writers who hated each other and did not agree on anything, the only good dialogue were at times completely non-sequitur blurbs, but everyone loved it because it was a spectacularly filmed show with great fights, suits, and spectacle with characters who were more amusing than they were coherent and they figured out well in advance if they focused on rule of cool more than trying to tell a cohesive narrative they'd go far.
And Agito fighting the Zebra Lord on top of a moving car was not at all an Inoue move, that was on Shirakura and Ishida.

That being said...

>>23324184
>Villains died in early Hesei as opposed to getting away with it
Not all of them.