I support any high road approach to anything.
“Kill them with kindness” is better than “stooping down to their level” all day, every day.
The reality is most of the Geno hate would die down if he gets in and find it’s way to someone else.
“Geno’s not bad. Actually, you know who would suck and be terrible in smash, ‘X’ or ‘Y’.” - GameFaqs, Reddit, 4chan.
This. The Smash community always downplay and complain about characters and once that character is in Smash, they will shut up about it and move on to the next.
“Ridley is just a meme, stop asking about him!”
“King K. Rool is irrelevant, Dixie should be in!”
“Incineroar has a horrible design, why not Decidueye or Lycanroc?”
“Banjo is from a dead franchise and Nintendo would easily go for Minecraft! LOL”
“Erdrick is just another anime swordsman”
“Terry is literally Ken with a hat!”
Once Geno comes, the haters will quietly lick his boots despite being “irrelevant one off side character” because they may find him fun to play as. So yeah, the haters are not worth listening to at this point.