The problem with MatPat is he is often constantly wrong, and when pushed he insulates with his hugbox, much like how Lewis acts. MatPat has a much wider audience due to more general appeal, but he also doesn't do any research.
There's a well-documented effect in media where someone can put out 10 articles, and 9 of them you just accept as true. The tenth, however, is a subject you coincidentally happen to be an expert in. The tenth article is one where you realize the media source is full of shit and making shit up. This hilariously happened to MatPat a few years back when he did a video about who would win between Viking, Knight, and Samurai.
He had no idea there was a whole community of actual weapons experts, blacksmiths, etc on YouTube willing to call him out on his shit. So MatPat turned turtle, never addressed it, and claimed he 'did his research'. The problem is those experts I mentioned before? They always opened up with saying they 'usually liked MatPat's work'. The Blindness I detailed above was still in full effect.
Very few people are real-life polymaths. The honest truth is it should take just one chink in the armor to make you question everything someone like MatPat or Linkara says.
There's a fundamental issue when adapting Super Sentai into Power Rangers. That is, you are 'stuck' with the costumes, themes, and suit acting of the corresponding sentai season. It is true that in later seasons costumes were reproduced and some new costume sequences are shot, but there is still a limit on what you can and cannot do. You want to remove all the Super Sentai out of Power Rangers, and you're most likely stuck with something akin to Tattooed Teenage Alien Fighters.
There's strength in the Sentai as well. One of the better adapted seasons, at least IMHO, was Time Force. When I found out it was almost a shot for shot adaptation of Time Ranger, that made sense. Super Sentai knew how to not take itself too seriously, how to be tongue and cheek, and, when needed, give an emotional blow. It knew how to be more character-driven with better character stories. Power Rangers, on the other hand, was known for constantly dipping back to "Let's get Jason David Frank back".
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