I've reached a point where I'd go "thank you!" if people would just start adding "I think" or "in my opinion" before subjective statements (if for no other reason than saving me from grinding my molars into dust XD). Ideally, they'd also talk in-depth about the lens through which they look at something, but that's being far too optimistic.

The Death Stranding situation reminds me, in some ways, of what we talked about re: FF XIII and the backlash that game endured, while using highly linear and restrictive gameplay to try and induce a sense of claustrophobia and constant fleeing from doom in the player. Similar to what the characters themselves would be feeling, once branded enemies of the state and reduced to having no single safe harbor left on Cocoon. But very few discussions actually centered around that concept, whereas most of it could be boiled down to "Not My Final Fantasy!" (which, granted, though repetitive, at least it made it very clear where the other person was coming from).

(Hah, haven't seen his videos before, but the name is familiar, for some reason. Knowing me, it's probably a mental association with Johan Andersen of YGO GX 😂).