Better yet, the first time it dies, it comes back as a 2/2 rather than a 1/1
These -1/-1 counters persist even after Gideon loses its creature type so its permanently weakened by the wither effect
Perhaps it's simply that you can't please everyone, that internet commenters love to complain, and that there are a lot of good Rayquazas to compare this one to, but I don't want to dismiss the negative views so out of hand
When I look at Twitter, I occasionally see people saying, "I want to use XX as a commander, but I don't know how to build a deck / it's difficult." Whenever I see that, I always think, "There's no such thing as failure, and if you don't fear anything and just get 99 cards other than the commander, you'll have a deck." I always lay out cards and build decks by combining them with armchair theories, delusions, and wishful thinking