Malstrom doesn't hate 3D Mario so much as he hates the attention and effort put into it. 2D Mario, for what it's worth, created a market for 2D side-scrolling/platforming that wasn't there before. The fact that Nintendo acts so completely divorced from 2D Mario is why there is such a small market for 2D gaming at retail now. New Super Mario Bros. Wii was, to be paraphrasing from him, a middle finger to the Video Game industry. It also showed that not only does 2D Mario have a much stronger market than its 3D comtemporaries, it ultimately makes the market for which less than stellar yet ambitious games inspired by it to sell. I can definitely see why Malstrom, and the market at large, would be frustrated by the fact that 2D Mario is treated so poorly and 3D Mario is treated like the breadwinner it isn't.
Pixel Art can be fun.
