Rome is actually pretty cool, but these losers focus on a very narrow slice of time between the Marian reforms and the Year of the Five Emperors, basically a grand total of 3 centuries. Go anytime before this time period like how the Etruscans had a huge impact on Roman society, religion, and Latin or after this time period like how Roman heavy infantry was ditched while Roman light infantry would be the basis in which medieval infantry would descent from and you'll receive blank stares. All the actual cool shit like mystery cults and curse tablets are ignored so we can drone on about the Battle of Cannae or how Caesar got owned at the Senate. Even within that time period, they would rather simp reactionary losers like Cicero than some dude who tried to fuck Caesar's wife by pretending to be a woman during a women-only religious ceremony. They definitely do not like when you say that the Byzantine Empire was just some fake name made up by some German living in a polity that was neither Holy nor Roman nor an empire when the Byzantines were by all accounts the actual Holy Roman Empire.