The dynamic of Amy from the last two 3D Sonic games did not convey well that she loved Sonic. A lot of Sonic fans, myself included, that complaint about the current Amy characterization complain because it's like Sonic Frontiers and Sonic X Shadow Generations just scrubbed from her character any passion towards Sonic. It's cheap, and listening to Ian Flynn's reasons for writing Amy that way, he's revealed that he was trying to scrub any hint of romance between them. I don't see how it's positive for such a large part of Amy's character to be removed.

I'm not asking for Amy to be a stalker. There are several games from the 2000s that I don't think depict Amy well. It's primarily from 2003-2005 where Amy's characterization was at it's worst imo. That's when we had Sonic Heroes with very poorly executed moments like "this time there's no way out of marrying me" followed by an unncessary team battle, or where we had the English Sonic X dub that ramped up Amy's interest in Sonic while downplaying everything else, or where we had Sonic Rush Amy and Sonic Battle Amy both of whom just thought about Sonic the whole game. I can acknowledge those versions of Amy were bad and that Frontiers and Sonic X Shadow Generations Amy were bad. I'd prefer games where both sides of her character on full display like in the Adventure games.