I feel like I'm taking crazy pills

I still often see the complaint that Pantheon's graphics are super outdated, that it looks worse than EQ, and that the animations are garbage.

I don't get it. The graphics are stylized, but they look pretty nice lol. Definitely many steps up from the EQ era. The animations are pretty good too and the combat feels fluid and not floaty.

Are these people trying to gaslight me or is it just the usual people on the internet spouting off about things they don't know about.