Slight tangent, but that’s another great example of nintendo haters’ closed mindedness to anything nintendo and beloved, the unwillingness to even recognize smash as a legitimate fighting game. It might not be your preferred fighting game, but that’s clearly what it is. Fighting game competitors aren't quibbling over this, it’s understood and respected.
It’s super easy to compare street fighter and smash, they both have Ken and Ryu, make use of hitboxes and hurtboxes, gameplay concepts directly transfer (anti-air, throw/strike/block, zoning/rushdown, I could go on)
Smash isn’t a real fighting game, BotW doesn’t have real combat, I wonder what the motivation could be for these silly statements? Is it that nintendo games just can’t be compared to “real” games, or…?