No. It is because of his games and what he stands for. The whole "Real Gamer" garbage started with Ninja Gaiden on the Xbox. Xbox was around when gaming hit the masses and Ninja Gaiden was that gens Dark souls. Only real gamers play Ninja Gaiden. The creator was a **** and he made a fanbase of *****.
Now we have this whole "real gamer" movement that comes and goes, but is frustrating because a real game is not a person "likes hard games."
Technically the "real gamer" movement started with Mortal Kombat whose fans were often quoted as saying Street Fighter was a game for children and some other derogatory terms I won't mention, ironically, because it didn't have the over the top violence MK did. Trust me that **** was annoying but I got over it and learned to love both franchises.
You can't really boil down a toxic fanbase because of its games though, if you pay attention to just about any fanbase your perception of a game can become askew. Just look no further than Smash for an easy example.
For the record his first game is heralded as the first NES game with an actual decent story and his character evolved throughout the original Trilogy. I'll give you that the reboots story is absolutely scatterbrained.
I don't really get how the first Video Game Ninja can be seen as Cliche but that's fine. I can respect this because he does seem pretty stoic from first glance and that can be considered cliche I guess.
That's incredibly subjective but if you don't like them that's cool with me.
I like DOA and have some respect for Ryu in that series, but if we go with that series, might as well go with what the series stood for. And that is Kasumi.
This is the part I don't get, to be honest. You hate Hayabusa for being bland, something that Kasumi is often known for for just being the same character throughout all 5 games and is "generic heroine" material which is fine but not all compelling, cliche, which the "generic heroine" can also explain that, and you hate the Ninja Gaiden games themselves; but not the NES era games just the new ones, because the Director was an ass hat, but approve of his passion project in which his goal was to fetishize the fighting game genre.
I like Kasumi too, mind you, I'm a big fan of the DOA games, especially 3 and 5 but some of your points towards Hayabusa kinda seems hypocritical as much as I hate that word.
I do think Kasumi is a great choice for a rep of DoA but for all of Koei-Tecmo I feel like we should aim for the legacy side of the company and call back to the work that Team Ninja did to save Tecmo and their work since despite Itagaki being the way he... was.
Of course, your absolutely entitled to your opinion and I can see where your coming from on most of them but that last one just really throws me off.