Lets be reality a lot of anime can be seen as pretentious if we go off of their fanbases. Cowboy bebop honestly has a pretentious side to it's fanbase and its still one of the GOATs because you can just ignore the bebop stans who hate on everything else.
To be honest, there's parallels between those types of bebop fans and booth posters who will attack you if you think a post-90s non boom-bap artist is good
Say it again for the nikkas in the back.