No need to apologise. I hope I've gave some food for thought regarding this hypothetical.

I'm certain that had the game come out, it would have inspired countless indie games in the years following, too. That metric is kind of difficult to judge I feel because we can't know how differently things would be if GBA Mother 3 never existed…

I feel like the argument can go either way… the N64 version allowed for a dynamic camera in cutscenes, GBA only had a fixed camera. Also the music fidelity was better on 64, due to the more powerful hardware than the GBA.

…into EarthBound 64, research it a lot & everything, to really understand the appeal of why someone might have preferred that version. For me, it's far too complicated to digestibly put into words in only a couple of posts.
(No slight intended against you OP, just an observation about M3 I've made)

In all seriousness though: I feel like this will always be a bit of an unfair debate in the sense that, most are going to be biased to the version of the game they can actively play now and don't only have a limited amount of images to look at and judge from there. You kinda need to really look…

Make it a worldwide release rather than JPN and US only, and I'm in.

Yep, it can be hard to let go of translations that are that old… but we can at least share a good laugh reminiscing on old theories that came from those old translations

Here's one from long ago… back in 1999, you translated "つよさ" from
EB64 as "Strength". 20 years later, the community assumes that it's a cut battle ability that didn't make it into GBA Mother 3, maybe similar to Flint's Brute Force. As it turns out, it actually would be closer translated as "Stats"…

That's true. Benichi will get his recognition someday.

I would like to see them focus on Mother 3 again, without specifically just being the N64 version. I'd wanna see another all-encompassing video covering the entire span of development. That said, that is disappointing they didn't get back to you on that. Maybe someday…

I'm gonna keep make videos about Mother 3 of course… but It's still nice to see others make these sorts of videos too. (That said, I did email DYKG a couple of years ago and essentially offered to write them a script for free for a new Mother 3 video. I never got a reply)