I cannot totally disagree that anime has many pros over manga when it comes to enjoyment, but I remain in disagreement that the Fairy Tail manga is bad. Considering I finished the story a good year or more before the anime even got there, that alone awards high marks. Mashima’s artwork is one of my favorites to date. Fairy Tail, Rave Master, Eden’s Zero. I’ve read them all and enjoy every stroke of his pen. The emotion he can invoke through the expressions of his characters is of the highest tier in my opinion.
Waiting for anime to be made in order to finish stories can both be arduous and fruitless. Arduous because of the time it may take to wait to see an ending, and then possibly fruitless because a majority of current anime never finish the source material for a list of reasons. I could go on all day with great anime that stopped well short of the source material’s end, leaving no choice but to go to the manga.
So relying on an anime to watch a franchise more often than not is a bad choice, I believe. And frankly, the only reason anime can be better, imo, is action and jiggly rather than drawn fanservice, and then there are times they cheap out on action animation, so it ends up being a waste to go that route.
Now does that mean I don’t enjoy some versions more than others? No. I read Inuyasha when the anime abruptly ended, because at the time time there was no way to know we would get Final Act. Do I enjoy watching Inuyasha animated more? Yes, but the manga was not bad. It was simply the manga. Do I like Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood more than the manga? Yes, but again, the manga is not bad, it is simply the manga.
But that’s just my opinion. I’ll trash a story if I don’t like it, but I’ll never say one version of something is entirely superior. No matter what, the stories are all the same. One does not tell it better, because it is all the same story…all the same beats…all the same moments. So, I do not see the difference.