>people either call Toby Fox a musical genius or an unoriginal hack for using leitmotifs depending on whether they like or hate him
>meanwhile in reality they're an extremely common trait in literally all music, for example think how many songs in Banjo Kazooie have that part that goes "DUUUUUUUN DUN DUN DUUUUUUUUN DUNNNNNNN"
It's like somehow nobody on either side of the argument had ever heard of a leitmotif until Undertale was created and now everybody's trying to catch up on all the arguing they missed out on for years.