All hope would not have been lost if you heathens had continued giving him points instead of ditching him :P
They are generic because literally every conversation I hear about good Cavaliers in Fire Emblem gravitate towards Abel, Cain, Titania, and Oscar. I always, always here "Oh Abel/Cain/Titania/Oscar so good the best in the series I wanna marry them everyone else is second-rate oh every Cav needs to be like them OOOOOH *swoon swoon swoon*" and it got really annoying, really fast. That's actually part of why Ike is among my least-favorite Lords...