With games you often really can not separate the publisher, the studio and the game from each other. And honestly in feedback consumer should not need to care where the demand for change came from. Maybe attacking studio is not fair, but attacking game due to changes by publisher or developer certainly is.

They did willfully sign a contract with Sony. Game devs need to think about who they’re using as a publisher.

If Sony was willing to take them on, then probably a ton of other publishers were too.