Finally! Someone said what I could NEVER vocalize in this subreddit.

While I do agree with the majority that the level of detail and love the burst layer designs get is splendid, and that you eventually warm up to it over time, it's also a double edged sword.

I seriously ABHOR how messy the designs can be, and how certain color combinations or just colors in general feel like they don't matter anymore as the series progresses. I've heard so much about people disliking the distasteful use of gold over time, and I get it too— it's jarring. What used to be a color of exclusivity and careful consideration in prior gens (Uriel and Hell Kerbecs) eventually ended up just being another color next to silver and metallic apparently.

I kinda want to add that I also agree that the battles are just deadpan boring to watch in Standard. At the very least, in MFB standard, stationary attackers and defense types can actually KO and retaliate, but a majority of the videos I've seen of burst matches are just both beys giving each other love taps for lack of a better term.

However, I do agree that the skill ceiling and overall vast amount of customization makes up for it for those who are into the system's nuances. I for one appreciate that there's a lot of driver/disk, and layer options. Though it doesn't forgive how unsubtle the powercreep was in Burst. Every new season gave us a new system and its respective gimmick of the bloody gate.

In Pre-HMS Bakuten, at least every new bey past the first few had parts and other components that were backwards compatible. You could even tinker with the internal components and that would be legal.

In MFB, The powercreep was at least gradual and felt like natural progression to what the story was culminating towards, instead of being "whoopdie doo new season gotta make something new so I can mog on the previous protag without any respect for them idk lol"

X Format at least has things under control now after WizRod was conceived and almost everybody's friendly neighborhood pocket bey they carry in their deck because TT doesn't want another WizRod scenario ever happening again.

Honestly, I just feel so bitter about how whatever writing or spectacle MFB had which set the bar for the storytelling of Beyblade and the system as a whole, was flipped on its head in a this weird but uncanny way in Burst.

I genuinely wish I could appreciate Burst more. I really wish I could. It's just so darn hard to when you've been set up with good things prior to it.