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No, it was oldfags realising it was trash.
Newfags were actually bought by it but it took the autism of oldfags to make newfags realise why it was slop.
Nowadays it's obvious though given the MUCH SHITTER ripoffs of it. Those ripoffs are so bad that is honestly makes this look a lot better now. It's much much better quality than modern slop.
And it was the slop of the time.

People have said that about NGE though. I remember oldfags calling eva the slop of it's time back in the day. Now it actually makes sense to me given SAO and I guess the rebuilds.