I always saw it as a positive. Japan made them popular, and when i saw jrpg i was much more interested than just rpg.

Of course, i am not japanese game dev but i seriously saw it a kudos to them for accomplishing something interesting and different enough to warrant its own category.

Saddens me that it was seen as derogatory. It was never my intent when i used the term.

I was running a project and the client insisted their project was innovative and bigger than a datalake. They called it a data ocean.