Having seen MMPR - Super Ninja Steel , I'm watching the Toei counterparts and in most cases some of the shows are a bit dumb. Car Ranger falls int this category for one. Cool team but an idiotic plot.

Sometimes a weak plot will nearly kill a show be it Hasbro or Toei. In both countries I've seen some dumb plots. You watch a few and like

excuse me - What? Where are they going with this?

That's my reaction.

Having not seen either of them yet or their Sentai counterparts, I honestly feel like I'm more looking forward to watching PR Samurai for the first time as opposed to starting RPM.

Ignoring how the fandom feels about both series', I just find it kinda hard to get excited for RPM since I don't like the direction it took while using Go-Onger as source material. And while Samurai doesn't look all that impressive I can atleast appreciate that it feels like it is trying to be a PR series & not trying to be something it's not ala RPM.

I'm obviously gonna give both a fair chance, I just don't view them with the same level of enthusiasm as I had hoped I would.

IDK if this is actually unpopular, but here goes:

Using the powers of previous heroes is a horrible gimmick. It makes it seem like the current hero can't stand on their own, and needs to rely on the franchise and nostalgia to be powerful within the fiction and interesting to the audience.

I'll probably watch Decade and Zi-O eventually because I'm just that invested in Kamen Rider, but my hatred of past-hero-powers kills any interest I have in Gokaiger despite loving the idea of a pirate Sentai. If Ultraman ever makes a new season that isn't built on this concept and reusing old monsters, I'll definitely give that a chance, but until then no way.

(Of course, if you like any of those shows or the concept of using powers from past heroes, more power to you!)

Build isn't as good as everyone acts like it's still good but I don't have it in my top 5 rider series

I won't argue with you on the gimmick stuff cause you have a point there, but nonetheless Gokaiger is a good show and I humbly ask for you to look past the gimmicks and give it a go. What really got me to like it aside from the heap of fanservice and trivia was the progression of them starting as these alien pirates who really don't have to protect Earth and just gather the rangers so they can hit the jackpot, in this case the greatest power, and get out whether the Zangyack empire is destroying Earth or not. Yet gradually they learn what it means to be a super sentai team as the show progresses and I think the final batch of episodes reflect that. Also their tsuika senshi is a sentai geek. A REAL SENTAI GEEK. Such a geek he became their silver ranger.

In my opinion, I think Zangyack is one of most boring villain group in Super Sentai.

But, at least Basco as villain is better than Zangyack and I personally prefer Basco become final villain than super duper boring Zangyack Emperor.

Takeru Satoh's acting as normal Ryotaro is so awful it genuinely makes it difficult to watch sometimes.

Look, guy is a fine actor, and I get that he has to portray a character with basically 4 different personalities, but the performance he puts on for normal Ryotaro is so horrible, it's hard for any moment to hold any weight since he always has a pseudo whisper going on, not to mention his line reading with said performance is god awful.

I agree with everything you just said wholeheartedly. At least Basco took steps towards his goal.

The Zangyack on the other hand? "Ok guys, here's the plan to invade Earth. You see these fancy warships we have orbiting around Earth? We'll just have them do nothing while we send soldiers down to Earth. It's foolproof!"

I half-agree. One of the few points I can give Super Mega Force is that I found Prince Vekar way more entertaining than Warz Gill.

True. But it's fine that way, makes the Gokaigers look better. :lolol