Your mentality makes a discussion impossible because you think Hello Games is a victim. I would say the people who spent their money on the game only to be taken for a ride by Sean Murray and company are the victims.
And you're right that the criticism wasn't ignored but every time Hello Games comes in a GAF thread theres a group that consistently supports them or acts like they were somehow wrongly persecuted. If you want to play their games because them lying doesn't bother you that's fine but acknowledge that. Don't try to turn it around and act like they're somehow in the right because many internet dwellers took it too far. The sad reality is there is always going to be the people on the internet who attack someone or threaten someone and take things too far. Those people should are rightfully called out for being generally terrible people but they don't turn Hello Games into a victim.
People who are so upset about hello games lieing that they think we should all be down dying for that alone, why aren't you this venemous at rockstar games for example. Heists never were what they advertised (not even just in reviews, actual advertisements). You were supposed to be able to pull them in the open world (not in a seperate instance) and then run off with all the money forcing your associates to come after you for it if you wanted. Where is my single player dlc that they specifically said they were going to do? I'm sure we can find other lies they said about gta v but those are the biggest ones on top of my head.
I'm sorry but the outrage over the lies that HG has done has gotten way overblown (I mean, it was a mob). To the point that before the patch you couldn't even say you enjoyed the game without being accused of lieing. Hell, some one here on this page said no one could enjoy the game. I can say me and my friend are both enjoying it a lot right now. One of e nice things about the patch is I can actually discuss playing the game on here (on the thread) without people having to insist it should be a discussion of how they lied or even scammed us (as if they did it on purpose. Scam artists don't spend 4 years on a scam nor do they come back and work more on it after it was successfully pulled off).
Yes, they lied on stuff. The overall game though is what they said it was (a survival, exploration game) that isn't as shiny about it as originally said. And I would say this happens to most games. Fallout 4 isn't as shiny as they originally claimed (yes I know this forum hates Bethesda too but even Bethesda didn't get as much venom as HG did, or at least the bitter people moved on a lot sooner. And HG has more excuse of being a small developer that doesn't have as many resources or people to meet their grand claims).