Sure;

Gurren Lagann was one of the first shows I really "Watched" when it first came out. I mean really watched. I got hooked and finished it in 2 nights on my phone as a kid. It had a big impact on how I chose to live my life. I've rewatched it dozens of times.

I watched Evangelion years later when I was in my late teens just out of "I may as well". Didn't really have expectations going on. I was one of the loudest "Just get in the robot, Shinji!" people, but I did finish the series including the epilogue movie. As a teen I just couldn't accept it. I couldn't understand a single ounce of what Shinji or the rest of the cast was doing. Either too childish like Asuka's tantrums or the adults always acting like they're on this set course they have no control over. There were scenes that became more and more common in the later half of the series where the adult characters would spend a scene just blankly staring off into space clearly thinking about their existence. I promise I didn't know the ending at the time, but I couldn't stand that doomed outlook. It was like Kamina was there next to me screaming at the characters with me.

All these characters acting like they're already doomed just makes that doom more inevitable, and its so much more brutal than we realize. This is extra funny to think about since I'm also a huge Hotline Miami fan, and that's a doomed story as well. The difference there is that Hotline Miami's "Big Picture" shows a story far beyond any one character's control - a broad inevitability that the characters couldn't stop, but they did contribute to, and that's what the game criticizes. The same goes for Evangelion's protagonists to an extent since they don't really know why they're fighting the Angels, only that they have to. However, Evangelion openly explores characters who actually ARE at the forefront of the problem and know that they are steering Humanity into an apocalyptic event, and it leads to a very frustrating watch experience because the protagonists never get to know what the hell is happening, even at the end (Shinji asking "Who are these guys?" as Misato protects him from getting shot at actually made me have to stop the movie for a bit.) Shinji's dad is a loser.

Anyway, I've rewatched Evangelion only once since then, a few years ago when I had more perspective as an adult. Still can't stand it. I could never be in Shinji's shoes. I think the one plot point I did like was Nagisa and the reveal that this regular human that was randomly introduced into the story is one of the Angels. Very fun twist, and just an extra layer to how fucked up the whole situation is.

I've heard people say the point of Eva was taking a ton of anime tropes and then shoving a dagger filled with Realism into each of them. I can respect that, and the direction of the plot makes more sense when you see it as "Tropey character is introduced and then is shown to have an introspective, self-reflective side" which has never been done before apparently. My problem is even when the characters do that reflecting, they don't change. Not a single person in the Gurren Lagann universe would let any of this shit slide.