Criticisms towards certain pieces of media that at some point in the past might have had a point/been understandable, but, nowadays just prove that the person doesnt know what they're talking about

Ever since the release of the Feybreak update for Palworld i've been paying more attention to the game due to the sheer amount of content that has been added to it over the course of the (almost) year since it's release and there's honestly a surprising amount of interesting stuff (from new pals, new ways to interact with existing pals, new areas, more stuff to do in the map and a bunch of other stuff).

However, it seens that a lot of people are still criticising the game for being a "Pokemon rip-off", wich was understandable up to when the game released because most of us didn't even known what the game was about and a lot of those designs did look REALLY similar to certain pokemons, but, after so much content has been added to the game that focuses on exploring and using your pals for many other things besides battles, continuing to hold that opinion just shows that you either never bothered to actually look into the game and are just saying that because you want something to complain about, or have no idea what makes Pokemon be Pokemon and will any game that focuses on fighting alongside creatures that you capture (like Digimon and SMT) a "Pokemon rip-off".