yeah I find it somewhat hypocritical to point fingers at 4th gen when it was pretty much the same with other generations, but with different concepts
like i don't enjoy teen pop or whatever reimagining of f(x)'s sound jyp failed to emulate but the same was said in 3rd gen a lot
I think for me as i really have disliked most gc groups from the very beginning ( read 21 4 min hyuna ect) and like how apink proved it was fine to be them. I liked the gfriend lovelyz omg april 's of the world, and would have liked twice were it not for be a star being the song they preformed that week. /em shudder.
Bp and the wanna be bp's will never be my thing. Does not help that most are private/boarding school kids and so far away from tough it is a joke, so they start at a huge disadvantage.
Doesn't mean anything about the kids but the vast majority of the music and the styling of the vocals is unpleasant. i guess it boils down to is it fun.
We Me for example can be really fun, hands up cherry bullet was a mess from a group i like.
I think it comes back to the music for me, but if the packaging detracts from what could be fun i give it miss almost from the start.
fx that you mentioned struck a really nice balance and expanded the margins, maybe that hurt them in the end as just the right music was too hard to find.