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Vindicated By History misuse/complaining?

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• Jewelpet: Magical Change was initally a Franchise Killer for the Jewelpet franchise, but eventually started to be seen in a better light for multiple reasons:
  • My Little Pony: Equestria Girls, which also got flack for turning the (non-human) main characters into humans, would gradually provide far more things for viewers to complain about than Magical Change did. Most notably, Equestrians would lose their magic in the human world while Jewelpets would remain at full strength in all worlds, and while Equestrians become weaker in human form, Jewelpets get boosts instead.
  • The final season of Friendship is Magic, especially the series finale in which Twilight becomes Equestria's new ruler, proved polarizing enough to make Magical Change look much better in comparison. Plus come time for My Little Pony: A New Generation, Equestria regresses to a far worse state than before Twilight came along^note (its magic disappears and all pony races become segregated and paranoid). Luea, meanwhile, becomes Jewel Land's queen and saves it without making things worse for it or Earth.

While I believe there's some fandom crossover, I suspect this is instead complaining about Equestria Girls and Friendship is Magic as:

• Equestria Girls and the part it's complaining about launched 2013, Magical Change launched 2015. And it's sounds like it's complaining about EG being a High School AU first with the Magical Girl parts being secondary and just having a different magic system as opposed to valid quality. This argues against fan crossover that could make it valid.
• The Friendship is Magic finale was divisive, but it did portray it as an effective rule. The regression by A New Generation was a Happy Ending Override, implied to have happened very far in the future when the original character s were long gone, that a sequel to Magical Change could/would do so not a valid comparison.
• Magical Change being a Franchise Killer means the anime (which seems No Dub for You) failed in Japan, a separate enough market from EG and FIM I doubt there's enough crossover for it to be relevant to this.

It sounds like it was written by a Hatedom for FIM/EG than fans which might make the overlap valid. But this is the first time I've seen such a different and separate franchise cause this so it seems suspect. Thoughts?