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A lot of people who hate tragic backstory villains aren't even pining for the return of hardcore Good Vs Bad, just that authors quit going out of their way to garner sympathy points with every single antagonist no matter how out of place, tone deaf, or last minute just for
<what a dramatic and ebin tweeeeest :DDDDD
Where are antagonists like God of War's Ares, DMC's Vergil, Tekken's Heihachi, Castlevania's Dracula? They are not 100% "pure villains", they have a reason for what they're doing, yet they don't justify their villainy over significantly to where the audience is demanded to feel sorry for them. Spider Man PS4 had two obnoxious examples of tragic villains with Doc Ock and Mr Negative, but also counterbalanced that with ten or twelve unrepentant assholes who, in spite of having their own justifications for going on "woe is me" tangents, choose not to since they've long since stopped caring about their pasts and Spidey can get some of his trademark quipping in with them while having his dramatic hero complex with the two big bads as well.
TLDR:
Forced sympathy bad, sympathy not inherently bad