>>536705305
You're holding up a screenshot of a retrospective as your gospel, but you're ignoring the evidence in the screenshot itself.
Look at the image from Advance 3. There's a question mark there for a reason, Sparky. Now look at Sonic's face in that same image. He's not thrilled. He's annoyed. The entire "Love-dovey? Pair" is a joke at their expense, not a sincere declaration of their dynamic. The "perfect combination" is the gameplay mechanic, not their relationship.

And in Adventure, she was a "heroine" who spent her entire story running from a robot she couldn't beat until Gamma let her go and Sonic showed up to save her from Eggman on the flight deck. Her motivation for being there at all was because she was following Sonic while shopping. Then she happened to feel sorry for a flicky.
She's not an adventurer in that game. Amy's a lost lovesick girl.

Stop letting marketing copy and shipper pandering rot your brain. The original material is right there. You're just choosing to read the post-adhoc ship pandering wall of text instead of looking at the picture. This is exactly how we ended up with the Flynn-era mess in the first place, by prioritizing what writers tell us the characters are over what the published media actually shows us.

Unlike you, Sparky, I value Actual, Existing, Sonic the Hedgehog. Not some idealized Sonic that only exists in the creator's head. That is idealism, not realism.
Maybe the creators did intend for Amy to be a super nuanced character and not a tropey trashy whore who wants to anchor down the wind. But that's what they ended up writing, Slashy. That's the song they approved for the actual published video game that you can purchase today. Sonic Adventure.
That mattes a lot more than 'creative intent'.