I fully agree with Ryan, there's a reason people keep mentioning games like Chrono Trigger, Half Life 2, Crysis, TLoU, Witcher 3, RDR2 etc. years or even decades after they launched, those games stood the test of time exactly because during they release they were indeed the best, at least in just some aspects of the industry (like FEAR with its AI, whenever there's a conversation about AI you know many people will come up with this title).
That being said tho, "OK games" if exactly what most PS exclusives actually are, aside of the graphics of course which are industry's best and are what actually generates all the hype - no one talks about those games just a year later, sometimes even months after launch, some even launch totally unnoticed. Before we hit Christmas no one will remember R&C which Ryan is so desperately advertising here, if the franchise would permanently disappear one day from PS lineup no one would even noticed, throughout past 5 years since latest Ratchet literally no one was asking for a sequel, what's going on with the series etc. it's ok if the game's there, but nothing to write poems about, certainly nothing "the best" in it, nothing anyone would be ever missing. No one is asking when's the next Killzone, inFamous etc. coming either, even Uncharted series seem to be forgotten already. There's just nothing in the gameplay mechanics that stands out of the crowd, nor the stories/characters are that great/memorable, let alone "the best".
Some dev not so long ago said on Twitter thta all Sony cares about is MC scores, so maybe that's exactly that, that's Ryan's perception on the games reception.