I find it weird how poorly Tails was treated in 2000s Archie considering he was a part of the original Freedom Fighters from SatAM unlike the other game characters that appeared later

My theory is that Archie in the 90s portrayed Tails like he was in SatAM, just a cute kid sidekick tagging along. And while that is a part of the character they weren't aware that Tails is actually meant to be a mechanic and genius. So when Sonic Adventure comes out in 1999 showing Tails with a workshop building planes, they felt that Tails being a genius would take away from Rotor, since he was established to be the team's mechanic. This lead to Archie shitting on Tails for basically making Rotor redundant lol