Fighting the Anti Sakura brigade took too many years of my life already on Reddit back in the days.
The recent polls speak for themselves
That's understandable man, I figured in hindsight you might be sick of it too. That shit is exhausting, I can't even imagine fighting the reddit echo chamber and their abuse of the downvote system especially. Plus what a lot of redditors tend to be like lol.
You finally reaped the rewards for sure with your hard work and loyalty though! I was very pleasantly surprised she was rated so high but then again growing up I did see a lot of simping for her (including from me, cough) as well as the hate so makes sense tbf.
Kishi definitely treated her far better than any other female characters too. By a mile at least even lol.
My fave moment of her was her sacrificing her long hair, which is a big deal actually. Reminds me of when Akane lost her long hair in Ranma and adopted and much better shorter hair look.
Sakuras hair has looked so much better since it was shortened too. The styles she adopted.