But why does that matter?
Obviously for some people the ending had quite the profounding effect, for others it didn't.
If sessler felt like that (in regards to the comparison), than he felt like that. Case closed.
Because it messes with the standards. It's why everyone laughs at GTA IV being oscar-worthy.
Bioshock Infinite is actually good in that it actually warrants criticism instead of plain mockery. It is a very well-constructed universe, it deals with serious themes, it has interesting character development, but, because of these, the flaws also stick out a bit more. Like the NY Times (was it?) review calling out on being too "gamey" with the boxes appearing where corpses should be.
Because it touches on serious themes, it is harder to dismiss it as games being games and because it has good development in some characters, like Booker and Elizabeth, it is harder not to notice how Comstock and Fitzroy are just charicatures of social issues, it leads to this:
You pretty much answered your own question. The French and Russian Revolutions were very similar. Both were guided by a charismatic leader (figurehead) who vilified and rallied a very pissed off populace against a tyrannical, sometimes brutal regime whose ideals were entirely different to the people they were supposed to be representing. The parallels to Columbia and Rapture on that basis are obvious. This is High School stuff that shouldn't need to be explained to a player in a game. What is wrong with respecting a gamers intelligence for once?
Napoleon Bonaparte, Vladimir Lenin, Atlas and Daisy Fitzroy. Tell me there aren't parallels there.
As the story fails to properly adress its themes, so the fanbase who really wants to like this game acts like real world history is also as simple as the caricatures the game built to be the setting. I'm serious when I say to go after philosophy books about Free Will if the game got you interested in the subject. Saying that you only have illusion of control is not enough and it sucks if you feel it is enough, just like it sucks if you feel the game's approach to oppression and revolution is good enough. It really isn't.
To be fair, I do think this game raises the bar, but in a way, it raises too far above itself, which can't really be said for most of this generation.