Whose N64 lineup was better, Nintendo EAD or Rare? (And why)

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I very much preferred Rare in the N64 generation.
While Nintendo deserves a lot of credit for building foundations, I found Rare hit the mark better, at least as far as my tastes are concerned.
I'll say Nintendo wasn't without games I enjoyed that generation: Mario Kart 64, Smash Bros, and Lylat Wars got a lot of my time. But other than that... Wave Race? Unlike many, I didn't really get into 3D Zelda or 3D Mario until later consoles: Mario Galaxy for Mario, and it wasn't until Breath of the Wild on Switch before I found a 3D Zelda game I enjoyed; I might have enjoyed those ones more if I wasn't comparing them to earlier iterations that were more my thing.

Goldeneye 007 was my favourite game on the N64. I also enjoyed Perfect Dark, but I think by that point I was all FPS'd out and didn't end up playing it nearly as much (I found the levels a little too longish for my liking as well), I didn't really get into any FPS games ever again after the N64... well, except for on-rails ones. Not the only time that happened for a genre/sub-genre, Smash on N64 was all I needed, found it difficult to get into any Smash game or anything like it after that (except Brawl, which had the Subspace Emissary mode)... Really, I was done with 2D platformers in general after that. Mostly I played Street Fighter Alpha 3 and earlier, and that's it... Hey! I just had a thought, GE007 had very short levels, as do those games like House of the Dead and other on-rails FPS titles... maybe my attention span for FPS games is just very short? Most of them have longer levels.
Banjo Kazooie is the game I think of when I think of early 3D platformers, not Mario 64.
Donkey Kong 64 for mid-generation 3D platformers.
Conker's Bad Fur Day defines the later N64 era 3D platformers.
Blast Corps is the game I think of for early N64 creative genre-bending titles.
Diddy Kong Racing was a game I enjoyed about the same amount as Mario Kart 64... and kept playing those two regularly until about Mario Kart on Wii.
Jet Force Gemini was the first third person shooter I enjoyed... although, it wasn't until either Godfather or Scarface on the Wii that I felt this much joy about a third person shooter on a Nintendo console again (I'm a Nintendo fan, but PSX really owned this genre).

In the mid 1990s until the early 2000s, Rare and Square were my two major video game fandoms. And a lot of people felt similarly, both were quite popular around that time, there were even fan battles between the two fanbases similar to Nintendo vs Sega vs Sony. A lot of genre shaming to justify points (Rare exclusive fans bashed RPGs, Square exclusive fans bashed platformers and FPS... but I liked them all at the time! I think most dual-console owners on the Internet were big fans of both companies.