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>Y-you only hate it because it's popular and the only one I've played!
No, you little shit. I despise Automata because it's literally just Nier with a coat of paint that doesn't belong to it. Nier worked because it was a humble action-RPG with great characters that built up steadily to something special. Nier worked because it mixed bullet hell mechanics with 3D combat.
Automata kept the bullet hell, but with a dodge-based combat because of muh platinum, when Nier relied on block. Even as platinum combat is fucking fails because the counters don't work 70% of the time. Instead of Weiss and Nier banter, you get 2B and 9S which are the most formulaic characters Taro has ever written. Instead of special camera angles being used sporadically to shake things up, they're used all the time because we want the cinematic audience. Instead of a slow, effective buildup, you get "THIS IS A SPECIAL, META GAMES GUYS, MAKE SURE TO REPLAY IT".
Playing automata is witnessing creativity being corrupted by the prospect of becoming The Next Big Thing. You saying it was Taro's only good game is all the evidence you need to say this was, sadly, successful.