I nominate Konno. Mario kart consistently leads the company's online effors each gen, and he's now adding the options to restrain items. If he were to offer the option of a double dash mode and improve battle mode, he'd have fulfilled all the fan's stereotypical complaints laundry list.
The animal crossing one is totally right. However....
Many, many 3d mario fans preferred the exploration elements to linear action-oriented elements. EAD Tokyo expressly stated their design goal was to chase consumers who previously only played 2d mario. 3D World was defined by Nintendo's business goals, not their impressions of 3D mario fans' desires.
While FEA was a success, the overwhelming majority of the people that made it one were people new to the franchise. The majority of fire emblem's tiny existing fanbase found it to be a downgrade in terms of the things they were buying the game for to begin with.
completely true, which is why the old FE fanbase still usually hold Genealogy of the Holy war and Thracia in higher regards.
Awakening is still good, but I just hate how easy it is with the new supports, no great map variation, no tower defending mechanisms, etc. ...but that's a discussion for another time.
We are tiny, so I expect the next FE to be pretty much like Awakening