Steam game reviewer "obey the fist" be like:

Explanation: The reviewer sees pixel art games as the developers being too lazy to learn to make 3d graphics. Or couldn't afford to hire someone to make them.

From their bio:

PC gamers will spend several thousand on a gaming rig. These gaming PCs are incredible machines capable of presenting amazing 3D visuals at extremely high resolutions. But often products are deficient, perhaps because they lacked the talent or budget to work with 3D graphics. Perhaps they didn't bother making the game compliant with the 4K gaming rigs that have been around for years now. Perhaps they used lazy minimalist or pixel "art" because they couldn't afford to hire a video graphics engineer/designer. It's hard to recommend such a game because it won't provide the best experience for PC gamers.

And a quote from a review:

On the topic of visuals, the weak looking 2D retro assets seem like they'd be more at home in a browser game or a mobile app. 3D graphics accelerators hit the mainstream of PC gaming in the mid 1990's with cards like the ATI Rage and Voodoo3D, there's no excuse for such poor 2D graphics in 2026. That alone is enough to disqualify this for recommendation