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>this list makes me think your top ten hasn't changed since you were ten.
Maybe three of them would've been in my top 10 list back then, but a lot of it comes from appreciating them in retrospect after being bored, annoyed and/or frustrated by hundreds of games since. Double Dash in particular I didn't start liking until a few years ago when I met some people late in college that showed me all of the cool nuances it had to offer in terms of its racing and LAN. Most of the games in my honorable mentions I played when I was in my late-teens or later, and a lot of them would be further up the list if they weren't ruined by updates. It is annoying, though, since I'd rather play and enjoy newer games, but none of them offer the things I care about.
Honestly, I'm not sure what to tell you; I've played hundreds of games since then, but most of them bored me to tears, especially on repeat playthroughs. Never been a fan of shooters, battle royales, party games, racing games, open-world games, real-time strategy, Souls-likes, etc., in general I just don't like anything remotely realistic. I like running around goofy worlds or worlds that lack a lot of visual detail, and it doesn't seem like people are really interested in making games like that anymore outside the people that have a very simple art style or the people making games just for the retro aesthetic (some of those games were fun, vast majority of them weren't).
I guess there were some RPGs that I found enjoyable, but the only things I really liked about them were the story. Everything else just felt tedious or uninteresting. The only non-Nintendo RPG I've enjoyed OVERALL was probably Final Fantasy I (moreso the Wonderswan remakes over the original). Something about its simplicity and shortness just makes it much more entertaining to play over and over again compared to Chrono Trigger, Earthbound, Earthbound-likes, anything from the Xenoblade series, Mana series, Fallout series, even all the other Final Fantasy games.
I don't know, maybe this is just what happens when you grow to like Nintendo games as a kid. You prefer their simplicity over everything else and you can never appreciate how complicated games can be in terms of graphics and design.