Review of Neon Genesis Evangelion

I have heard so much great things about Evangelion for literal years going in to the point where there was no way in hell it was ever going to live up to all of them but by GOD was it bad and no just because something has deeper meaning does not mean it's good when you introduce all these psychological themes and do literally nothing with them complete with some of the worst character writing I've seen, it confuses being so mysterious to the point where nothing sticks out about them(I'm looking right at Rei and Gendo over here)for character traits, Asuka was just abitch, and Shinji dear god Shinji he might just be the least likable main protagonist in any anime I've ever seen in my life he whines SO MUCH to the point where season 1!Midoriya would tell him to grow up and stop whining. The ONLY good thing about this show was it's influence and thus it spawned a bunch of shows that try to do the same thing but actually do a good job at it and some actually good mecha animes (Shows Gurren Lagann/Code Geass(TBF Code Geass is a deconstruction of Gundam tropes but it owes MORE THAN A FEW THINGS To Evangelion) and tbf the art even if it has a few moments where it shows it's age here and there, and reuses stock footage(which is to be expected in a mecha anime)still holds up nicely, and the soundtrack's pretty good and I do like Eva unit 1's design. Moral of the story it's not as good as everyone acts like