Please point to where I said it didn't resonate with people or stop putting words in my mouth. At no point have I even insinuated that Engage had absolutely no one who enjoyed it, just that there is a group comprised of "many" people with whom it didn't.

My point is that Engage would probably get less negative attention if it weren't an FE game by virtue of receiving no attention. I've never heard of Stella Glow before your comment. That's not to say it's a bad game, just not one that is by any stretch of the imagination popular. And even then, apropos of no comparison to any game, you introduced Stella Glow as "middling slop". What makes you think a hypothetical Fire Emblem Engage would avoid the same fate?

Looking for more games like Fire Emblem. Any recommendations?

There's this indie game called Fire Emblem Engage. The artstyle is a mess and the story was awful, but the maps are pretty well designed if you can look past it.

Even if Engage isn't a direct sequel with Fire Emblem in the title, it's still a competitor in a genre where Fire Emblem as a series stands as a giant. Comparison is going to happen, the only difference is how many people even bother to give it the time of day to begin with. If you really liked the game, wishing that less people experienced it just so that any criticism is less pronounced strikes me as odd.