>>278779
It's common for people to mention this, especially those that use the "Sonic was never good" argument, though I'm aware you're not part of that group, just mentioning that I see it a lot, and while I get where it's coming from, calling it a fundamental design flaw to me is just not true, you don't have to memorize everything, often you have to memorize very little, as long as you know to spindash, roll into a ball in slopes, especially downwards ones, and jump over pits to platform properly, you're mostly invulnerable as Sonic, and the ring system makes it so getting hit a few times isn't too severe as you can get your rings back, you might not play through perfect and beautiful runs of stages unless you memorize a lot, but playing it fast with few mistakes? It's not a complicated thing to do as long as you understand how it works and keep a few basic concepts of Sonic in mind during it.