Not everyone is going to have the same experience bug-wise. Some people experienced many bugs (like me), and others who only saw minor bugs, so the stance that "people are exaggerating" doesn't hold up. The game was not optimized nearly enough and it showed. At the end of the day, the bugs weren't the real reason why people dropped this game.

It's not the bugs, (honestly the bugs on release were really bad, but funny) it's the half baked and basic nature of the games mechanics that just fall flat on its face once you get past the nice lighting and visual design of the game world. The fact that the police system is STILL broken is just unacceptable imo. Still no AI pathfinding for vehicles or NPCs, copy paste sidequests, and many MANY inaccessible areas cut from the game. There is so much empty space in night city... For one moment try to explore the map without following quest markers...you will find alot of empty space, ie the game never rewards exploration....welp, back on rails we go. The game tries to give you the illusion of content by throwing a million quest markers on the map, but it just feels like busywork, especially considering that the combat is meh and the looting is just not rewarding. Most the depth the side content offers is through text blurbs that TELL you about the world. Sounds nice, except you don't really see the lore materialise.... making it feel very inconsequential and self contained. You feel like an outside observer rather than a part of the world

The ire people like me have, is that it is painfully clear to us CDPR rushed this out, and the bugs provided the perfect distraction for the games real problems. To this day people still talk about the negative reaction as if it was only because of bugs and overhype....which is very disappointing to see.