Perhaps I'm misinterpreting his point, but the impression I got is that he things people like how SFIV looks because it's not pixelated, and that people dislike

Perhaps I'm misinterpreting his point, but the impression I got is that he things people like how SFIV looks because it's not pixelated, and that people dislike how other pixelated things look because of the "pixel tax". But, I think lots of people genuinely like how SFIV looks and have not played neither KOF III nor SFIII. Even if they see the bad animations they don't have a problem with it because they think it's part of the style. Just like, people like me genuinely like how Diablo looks and he things it's a muddy aliased mess.