I've stopped paying attention to most "critics" out there. The vast majority just jump on whatever bandwagon is trending and repeat the same nonsense ad nauseam to get clicks, then armies of anti-gamers spend all day, every day repeating what they said in various public internet spaces. Content creators who go against whatever is the popular opinion are ripped to shreds.
Apparently, all that matters now is collecting arrows, shooting them into the air and expecting this game to be like Skyrim. You could do all sorts of stuff in ancient, free, ascii-based games you can’t do in games nowadays, too - stuff that was a lot more fun than collecting arrows or getting caught nicking stuff. I guess we should all just go back to them, then.
But anyway, the problem with this type of negative hysteria, is it drowns out proper, first-hand criticism from people who play the game and have opinions that are their own, and trivialises actual issues