OP's points were strongest towards the end of the video, but disagreed that it's a masterpiece.
A masterpiece is nigh perfection, and HxH is not perfect. The pacing is brutal at times when it doesn't have to be (Greed Island, Chimera Ant Arc), & the 90s anime's pacing is even slower than the 2011 but the 90s anime actually did a lot of things better in just how it wrote the exact same story (way better character writing). And too much goddamn talking when visual storytelling can do the heavier lifting.
The story decisions regarding the Troupe wasn't the best after York New, Chrollo has been shelved waaaaaay too damn long, & we're in yet another arc (Succession) that has nothing to do with him or the Troupe in premise as a focus. Meanwhile they're off jerking around somewhere.
But HxH is still good anyway, despite it's issues, why? Characters & it's INITIAL story structure bought it enough good will to where later red flags could be afforded. MHA jacked up it's own theme out the gate with contrivances, nepotism, plot armor, dysfunctiona/unhealthy overtones & hypocrisy.
Otherwise, I personally think The Netero & Meruem fight could've been less repetitive and had better choreography but what we got by the shows standards of power scaling, is still pretty dope. Way better than most My Hero fights which is 90% flashbacks & looking at people watching the fight than actual fighting. Meruem actually communicated a strategy while seemingly getting smacked around, even Gungi playing a visual factor into the matter; the talking served a purpose because how fast everything was happening, you'd need exposition just to keep up.
So that much, was pretty good.
Overall, HxH simply what 90% of shonen are not: which is "competent", which means it does the bare minimum, and the bare minimum doesn't mean it's a masterpiece.
That says less about it being a masterpiece, than it says about shonen as medium being a dogshit genre & the bare minimum in comparison seems like a masterpiece.
That says more about the genre, than the show itself.
Watch the first 3-6 episodes of MHA, realize Teen Titans 2003 is better in every way in less episodes (2 minimum) & one movie. Then watch HxH. Then watch Avatar the last Airbender, actual peak.
Gon's quality as a main character? Infinitely superior to Tearsdoriya, leagues more depth & range without the coddling, handholding, being gatekept in that damn school, the one time he went independent he was POLICED right back to being the same caricature, and that babying "you can do it", "do your best", "I'll save everyone" Nick Jr. bullshit. Absolute joke.
Gon is a good kid with a limit, he'll help you in neutral, he'll give you a chance when you push it, he'll threaten you if you get in his way, he'll hurt you when you do get in his way and if you body one of his own, he will kill you. Crying inner child or not, he got two hands for both you & the child crying in your soul or whateverthefuck.
That's an actual person with realistic boundaries, vs some mascot kid who acts more like an emotional support animal than representing an actual person. CHRIST himself is more three dimensional than Deku is, that's how unrealistic & boring izuku the snowflake is.
I finished MHA before I even took HxH seriously (after years of scoffing at it), Gon is an actual main character, a severe breath of fresh air; and when others share the spotlight, it's not spread thin between 20 fucking characters, and one of the characters that got the spotlight was the antagonist Ant King.
Deku is a MC figurehead, brutally and thats being generous.
Deku's concept works better than the execution, Gon's concept as an archetype works with his execution because he's not an ideal, nor ideal as a person. He's written like a flawed human being who's allowed by the narrative to taint his ledger / & corrupt his image vs being protected from having to make tough decisions, thus preserving the character to be the exact same person the entire show, aka a caricature. And just having an edgier design or costume isn't character development.
All in all, HxH ain't no masterpiece; it's got plot armor, it's got too much exposition out the ass at times, contrivances, etc. but most of it can be afforded but it is written worth a damn. So even despite it's problems, for a shonen, it's still competent.
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