There is a taste, then there is downplaying.
Not everyone is going to play or oike starfield. But acting it as it's going to be bad as fallout76 is plainly trolling.
Honest truth; when people jump onboard hype-trains I feel like things turn out badly more often than not. Especially when they back that optimism with something technological like "the next gen has finally arrived with game x". Its just more pressure than almost any game in the history of the form can handle.
I'm not saying this to rain on anyone's parade, just that based on my experience as somebody who's been playing games for 40+ years I feel like people should try and strike a healthy balance between excitement and realism. I can't speak for anyone else, but I can say that hand on heart over the years the games that made the biggest impression on me tended to be ones that I didn't see coming.
Not to say that every "next big thing" ended up disappointing me, but even when they did live up to the hype, I often had to get over a hump period when expectations versus reality got realigned, and only then could I fully appreciate them for what they were.
It can be made extra difficult when there's always some twats who revel in the schadenfreude of seeing people disillusioned and disappointed.
Just saying, as someone legitimately neutral in this particular case, there won't be a road to damascus moment where the haters suddenly accept that the thing is a legit GOTY. They'll double-down if anything. So allowing yourself to get too sucked-in to the hype and defending your game against "them" is just setting yourself up for a fall.
I don't care what anyone thinks. If the biggest piece of shit game gives me hours of fun, I'm winning. And the opposite is equally true.
So, do what you do. But never forget that your "fun" (and of those you are playing with if its a MP thing) is the only thing that matters in the end.