I've mostly seen them be hated for purely superficial reasons, like Ken Penders.

? Can you maybe elaborate on what you mean? A little bit scant on details/context.

Power scalers are some of the most stupid but academic people in the planet. They will consume any media so long as they can calculate how many kiloseconds it takes for character A to beat character B

People say that there's too many characters, but I think most of the original characters are memorable, like Sally Acorn, Sally's parents (Maximillian and Alicia), Rotor Walrus, Bunnie Rabbot, Antoine D'Coolette, Nicole the Holo-Lynx, who was created by Rotor's alternate future self, Saffron Bee, Uncle Chuck, Sonic's parents (Bernadette and Jules), the Brotherhood of Guardians, Knuckles' parents (Lara-Le and Locke), Rita-Le, Gala-Na, Wynmacher (Knuckles' stepfather), Kneecaps (Knuckles' younger half-brother), the Wolf Pack, Dimitri, Julie-Su, Lara-Su (Knuckles and Julie-Su's daughter), Jani-Ca (The Dark Mobius version of Lara-Su), Remington, Doctor Finitevus, Scourge the Hedgehog (Sonic's Anti-Mobius counterpart), Rosy the Rascal (Amy's crazed Anti-Mobius counterpart), Fiona Fox (who betrayed Tails to be in love with Scourge), Mina Mongoose, Rob O' the Hedge, who is obviously based off of Robin Hood, Lien-Da (Julie's main enemy and Eggman's general), the Iron Queen, who wields a combination of science and magic called Magitek, Bride of the Conquering Storm, who people associate with Espio, Ixis Naugus (an elemental wizard who is a Rhino-Bat-Lobster hybrid), Geoffery St. John (a skunk who is Naugus' student), Shard the Metal Sonic, who started out as being closely based off of Metal Sonic, but later became his own character, and is Lord Danny's favorite version of Metal Sonic, the Ancient Walkers, the Neo Walkers (Aurora, Athair, and Merlin Prower), Enerjak, whose near-limitless power is kind of overkill for a demigod (demigods don't usually have near-limitless power unless they are transcendent), and one of the best Sonic villains from outside the games; Mammoth Mogul, who founded the Order of Ixis, and is the creator of Ixis Magicks. I know, that is a lot of characters, but they're all cool.

@Flowerpuns

That's why power scaling should only be done using canon information, and comparing characters' canon feats.

Cuz in preboot characters are either super wimpy or improportionally god-level, insanely inconsistent. Sonic does crazy things like Thanos snap and gets super strength and at one time Knuckles could turn super whenever he wanted. Shadow also had reality manipulation, but the characters were always as powerful as the writer(s) (Ken Penders) felt like they should be at the moment.

If I power scale characters using Archie I would only do it via early classic era or Reboot, those are much more consistent.

@Spark The Groundhog

The Chaos Force goes hard in the comics, and gives a lot of powers. The Chaos Force itself, is the definition of power in the Pre-Super Genesis Wave Archie Comics. Sonic's speed and Silver's power in said era of the Archie Comics also go hard. The classic era for the comics obviously started at Issue 1/4, the reboot started at Issue 252, and the primary era ended with Issue 247, but when did the classic era end and the primary era start?

There's classic, Adventure, Modern, then Reboot

I believe classic ends on 71, Adventure starts at 72, ends at Pender's last one 159, modern (primary) Era starts when Penders Ian Flynn was booted off and ian Flynn took over at 160, and then Modern era ends at 247

Sorry mates, I'd chime in but Archie's a little bit outside my wheelhouse 😅

@Spark The Groundhog

What comic did the writers start going hard with the characters' powers?