Is Level 5 the most overrated developer?

I am playing through Ni No Kuni Remastered, and doing so made me recall that while the visuals are absolutely beautiful and the music is fantastic, the combat is just awful.

It's like they found the worst of both real time and turn-based combat and combined it together. Party member AI is dull as dish soap. Plus the familiar system feels really tacked on.

Then I go back through and that think that maybe, with the possible exception of the Dark Cloud games (and White Knight Chronicles for a totally different reason), that has always been the story with Level 5 -- great visual presentation and music but awful gameplay.

Ni No Kuni 2 gave us a Tales-like combat system, but they overcorrected the problems with the first game to where the entire game is so easy, you could almost play it blindfolded.

I distinctly remember Rogue Galaxy being another game that had the bones of a Tales and/or Star Ocean-like combat system but it basically boiled down to spamming the the same room clearing move over and over again for 90% of the encounters in the game.