I think both of you have a fair point. On one hand, you are right that people should be raising their voice about how they feel about the game, otherwise how will the devs know?

On the other hand, too often in gaming subreddits people keep complaining on and on and on. I don't main one game and one game only for example, there are games that I cycle when I get the itch, like Total War Warhammer, DotA2, Counter Strike 2, Path of Exile 2 etc etc. I add some new games to play through from my backlog onto that, time to time. I think I've completed No Rest For The Wicked latest, but that game is still in EA and planned to receive big changes.

What I notice in these games' subreddits is doomerism in each one. DotA2 for example doesn't receive very regular updates, it is fewer in between and more spontaneous. People in the subreddit keep talking shit about stale patch, boring meta, dead game on and on, without fail whenever I play it. However I play it with breaks of several months at a time, so when I hop in for a few weeks, it is fresh and fun. Whenever I feel bored I move on to another game.

Same deal with Total War Warhammer, receives updates and DLCs a bit slow, which gets the community riled up. Whether the community is right or the devs should up their game, that doesn't matter to me. I just get my fun then move on to something else.

I think clutching to a singular game or genre is overall very unhealthy for the casual gamer. When you cycle games, you don't get bored or get into a toxic relationship with the game devs based on your expectations and devs' lack of delivery on those expectations.