In FF they get threatened by friggin bullets. The whole inconsistency and anti-feat issue exists pretty much everywhere, but Mario seems to get a really hard filtering because of them. But if you squint hard enough, you will find plethora of anti-feats in other heavy hitter verses like Sonic, Persona, Devil May Cry, etc.
Honestly, I do see the reasoning on using anti-feats to keep an average of sorts, but only Mario seems to be applying it. Everyone else just goes for high ends. If the same standards were applied everywhere, most big tier verses would be knocked several numbers down.