Any time anyone uses the word "fanboy" "fangirl" or "hater" to put down people who disagree with them, the Credibility Meter they'd been building up resets to 0 in my mind.

I wouldn't place this game anywhere near X, that would take some beating. If X had a steerable airship (RIP, wonderful concept) it'd have probably overtaken VII as my favourite.

In modern FF terms my prioritisation is probably:
VII, X, IX, XIII, X-2, VIII, XII
Ranging from "awesome", through to "average", to "ok", to "poor". But I've never really considered any of them "really bad", and I even enjoy VIII still even though it's just "ok".

If there's one truth to all the opinions here though it's that FF fans rarely agree on which ones are great and which ones suck, often to the extremes of complete opposites