Technically not false, since they kind of have to be evaluated with different criteria and OP never explicitly stated that they were necessarily better.

For a lot of people, these were actually their first anime. I've watched Pokémon since I was little, but didn't really realise it was anime until a couple of years ago. I wouldn't really put these on a 'Must Watch Anime'-list, but rather on a 'Must Watch During Childhood'-list.