One of the things that always annoyed me about the Smash community is how many things they had to ban to make the game competitively viable.
Someone should make a YouTube series where they systematically go through the game and demonstrate why the community chose to ban a stage. It would at least be more transparent instead of looking nitpicky even by serious fighting game standards. The tendency to strip out massive chunks of the game is a large reason people struggle to take Smash seriously when viewed against other fighting games that are more normalized across the board.
The only game reviewers who can be trusted are those who publish in Latin or Swahili.