People were trying to dogpile and sound smart and witty and ended up embarrassing themselves.
This is like a reverse thread backfire of sorts. I guess some people are just mindlessly desperate to defend their favorite game tooth and nail against the slightest whiffs of criticisms. What is wrong with some of you, I mean, really.
More on topic, there's a reason RE4's
tank controls mostly died with that game (except for Godhand, because Mikami is just a crazy person I guess). What endured was its of use of camera perspectives: the over the shoulder view paired with the subtle zooming-in when aiming, forever establishing the basics of the third-person shooting genre. However, your character being locked to the camera did not endure.
But movement, brehs? That shit more or less works in RE4 since the game is designed around it, but it nevertheless feels dated, cumbersome and uncomfortable in the face of how much progress this genre has seen in over a decade. Being forced to unnaturally move in a mostly single straight-line with entirely independent turning controls as if you were some sort of machine is the very definition of tank controls. That did not fucking endure either.