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The reason for SAO's hate does mostly come from overexposure when it was popular and how chipper every SAO fan was. Not to mention having a bland perfect protagonist, a female lead mostly there to be the wish fulfillment wife in a wish-fulfillment romance (she cooks too? Oh joy...) in a flawed game populated by dips who hate Kirito for being so cool and chicks who keep falling for Kirito, wasting half of the only good part of SAO  (Aincrad) when she inevitably got with the girl on the front cover.

I only watched the Aincrad arc and I can tell you from the depths of my being....that I really like it.

Yeah, I can't bring myself to hate it. I'm a sucker for it. But that doesn't change things about SAO.

As for a crossover with RWBY? Could work. Maybe provide an existential crisis to the cast, since their entire world being a game played by 16-somethings who only saw them as non-playable characters with no soul could be completely catastrophic. But this is advice coming from someone who took a beloved character to the fandom and put her through a world of hate and death, so take it with a grain of salt lol.