I dunno, XII doesn't have as many defenders as you'd think. EoFF has an above average number of FFXII fans and even then it's not a huge number. I think you might be surprised if you got all the FF Fans together. It'd be interesting to get a 'census' of FF fans, asking them which games they had played and which of those games they liked. I think the difference is that most people who like the game don't spend their time going around defending it, they just sit happy in knowing they liked it, and don't care about what XIII haters say.

Obviously I care to defend, but that's just me.