I would like to wring their neck shake their hand
I've been playing Super Mario RPG in small chunks on my phone for over a year and my review is that one half of it is very charming and the other half is filled with the worst minigames and platforming ever devised
Knowing how fussy the higher ups at Nintendo, especially Miyamoyo, are with their IP, it probably was someone like ol' Shigeru insisting that platforming is part of Mario's identity.
I remember hearing somewhere that Super Mario 3 was initially supposed to be isometric which was scrapped because it frustrating to play
Nice that they managed to get to use the isometric platforming concept somewhere