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I would say that LH is Akamatsu-sensei's worst work, but I haven't read UQ-Holder yet to make that call. (AI was underdeveloped story-wise, Negima was good)
Negima was good, though the cast was a little too large and it felt a lot of them got less time than deserved. I haven't seen his other stuff to have an opinion.
Love Hina is just a particularly egregious thing because of the sheer extreme it goes to with the "man breathes, the girl who 'loves him secretly' breaks his fucking spine." So much so that the only thing seperating it from Bokusatsu Tenshi Dokuro, a series made to parody that exact thing with over the top violence, is the lack of gore.
And unfortunately the reverberations of Love Hina are still felt in most harems, and plenty of regular shows too. Naruto being a famous example of trying to pull it off with Sakura, but people being so sick of it that they literally bullied the author into picking a different girl in the end.
Hinata is best girl and her relationship with Naruto purified Nanashi's (of Nagatoro fame) pitch-black soul, so it's a net positive.
As someone who was a Hinatafag all the way back when the Chunin exams were the current arc, I won't disagree.
But we had to spend literally a decade plus of him promising that Sakura was always destined to be Naruto's #1 until the hard swerve near the end.