The problem is no one knows how much of the player/critic difference is legitimate complaints and how much is political outrage from the anti DEI movement. Studios don't know if their game is actually bad or just fell victim to culture wars.

There are some areas where it's easy to decide like when people complain about the way movement feels, but separating "writing bad because everyone acts flat and out of character" from "writing bad because LGBT and pronouns" is impossible because all you see in the review is "bad writing".