Hm, it sounds like you've never had the experience of understanding how to play smash, to be honest. Button mashing and move spamming would definitely keep it a very bland game, since the whole beauty of it is manuvering using the variety of moves your character offers. If you die so immediately it'd probably be no fun, and the adventure mode feels like a side dish platformer to me too, I understand why you felt that way, it's not supposed to teach you to play. I think what is supposed to teach you to play is playing against the CPU in your level and watching what they are doing and learning from it.
If you want, you should have a friend sit down and try to teach you to smash. Have a friend explain to you what you should be focusing on while playing smash. Unlike Mario Kart and Zelda, it's not an intuitive experience, it's an experience where you think to yourself "what should I do?".
Teaching noob friends who don't game to play smash always takes at least 20-30 minutes until they start getting it, before that it can be too confusing - but in my experience all the people I've taught smash to have started to really really enjoy it by the end.
Tldr: I think maybe you've never learned how to really play the game, since it's not really taught in any way but more picked up by battling cpu or players who get it, so I suggest asking a friend to teach you, and see if it makes sense then.
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Re: Soapbox: I Don't 'Get' Smash Bros. And I Just Don't Know Why
Hm, it sounds like you've never had the experience of understanding how to play smash, to be honest. Button mashing and move spamming would definitely keep it a very bland game, since the whole beauty of it is manuvering using the variety of moves your character offers. If you die so immediately it'd probably be no fun, and the adventure mode feels like a side dish platformer to me too, I understand why you felt that way, it's not supposed to teach you to play. I think what is supposed to teach you to play is playing against the CPU in your level and watching what they are doing and learning from it.
If you want, you should have a friend sit down and try to teach you to smash. Have a friend explain to you what you should be focusing on while playing smash. Unlike Mario Kart and Zelda, it's not an intuitive experience, it's an experience where you think to yourself "what should I do?".
Teaching noob friends who don't game to play smash always takes at least 20-30 minutes until they start getting it, before that it can be too confusing - but in my experience all the people I've taught smash to have started to really really enjoy it by the end.
Tldr: I think maybe you've never learned how to really play the game, since it's not really taught in any way but more picked up by battling cpu or players who get it, so I suggest asking a friend to teach you, and see if it makes sense then.