Anyone raving about X-Men or The Simpsons in 2018 hasn’t played either since they were a kid pumping quarters into the machine with their friends. Those games are dumpster fires, as made incredibly obvious when you try to play any of them now.
However, they aren’t fair representations of the genre, and certainly not of Streets of Rage, which is balanced far better and actually, y’know, intended to be finished by normal people.