A well-respected fighting game analyst and historian broke character recently to comment on the current trends of negativity in fighting games' criticism and discourse, and it applies broadly to games in general.
"There's this weird thing in all forms of media critique where negativity feels objective and positivity feels subjective. The problem is that this is actually kind of true."
"There is this infectious negativity throughout all discourse that makes you feel like you're going completely insane for just having a good time."
"Criticism has its place. But the response to games actually needs to be relative to its problems."
"Some things are bad. People have bad taste and part of being an adult is to discuss those things without it devolving into [ __ ] throwing. However, if literally all you do is talk about how terrible everything is, for one, you probably just don't really understand what makes a fighting game good. And for two, you're just kind of spoiling the vibe."