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I'll respond sincerely just for the sake of it. I have consumed nearly every piece of Sonic media there is, as well as the cited inspirations for each.
I like most of it. I am no purist. I've been able to enjoy Archie, Prime, Boom, Underground. I've found a little something in each I can like.

Honestly though? I like the games most of all. I think there's a massive powergap between the games and other media. The two latest manga have only recently started to close that gap.

I can totally understand the appeal behind Archie's world.
Unlike the games it isn't a series of standalone projects with references to each other. Unlike the IDW comics it isn't a strange frankenstein of enforced canon and authorial freedom. But I still don't like Archie's world.
It feels like the setting only became treated as a consistent and lived in space after Ian took over, before then it was very much a session of authors trying to iverwrite each other, Penders copying concepts over from DC, botched political commentary (This also survived all the way into the Ian-Yardley era) and unexplored concepts.

Like Hope Kintobor's similarity to Maria, there is no shortage of happy accidents that make Archie look more cohesive than it is.
I don't find myself getting upset that it's not a straight depiction of the games, I'm fine with that, but I just don't like it. I like parts of it. I like the aliens introduced briefly in the early 2000s. I like that you can map out where the characters reside or hang out. I don't like the alien origin story for mobians. I don't like the incessant connecting of everything (The Robotniks) to the Acorn throne. I understand why these things were done. Don't like them.

And I have to acknowledge the elephant in the room. The Super Genesis Wave, when taken at face value, is a complete blight on the story. I like the reboot far better than the original run but it's impossible to overlook what a dark and gross concept the SGW is.