FE:A sucked, and I've lost faith in the franchise since I saw the slop that was Fates' plot. Too bad since Conquest looks great in gameplay, but good lord everything else was bad.
They don't make 'em like they used to.
Do you say this because of gameplay issues you had with it or because waifu wars
I can't speak for trdl, but the newer Fire Emblem games look less appealing to me than the older ones. They seem to have abandoned even the simplest overtures of trying to tell a decent story; embarrassingly enough, I've watched a bit of Fates, and it's not even in my top 1,000 games ever.
This. FE:A was way too easy as well.
FE7 is definitely in my top 20 of all time, maybe even top 10. Everything just worked. ---