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Are people really gonna keep perpetuating the "this classic dev HATES your favorite characters" bullshit after a certain you-know-who just returned last month?
Sakurai was very hands off with 64 (and likely DL2-3) to the point he avoided even looking at it. He knew that, as the creator of this series, his opinions held a lot of weight and would disrupt the team's creative vision.
When deciding that "no humans in the anime" rule, it's far more likely that he simply didn't know Adeleine existed than him doing this out of malice. If he truly hated Shimomura's contributions, why did he approve all the DL2 references?