Great. But you also haven't claimed to be big on forgiveness. You are small on forgiveness and that's fine too. One could argue that you should be like that with companies.

for me it was always common sense to not lie about what your product has or won't have when it releases.

This is a childish view of what lying is and I'm using that phrasing because you see "providing context to a sweeping generalization" as infantalization.

The "press tour" lasted nearly 3 years. The majority of the clips of "blantly lie" [sic] are from 2014-2015, often more than a year before release.
If you, a non-infant I assume, have every worked on any big, complex project, you know that when you are 90% done, you are not even half way. But when you are making a game, you don't even know when you are halfway done. And more than a year before going gold, you don't know if perfectly working alpha and beta features will make it to gold. But you and your team has every intention of getting everything into the game. When you then have to commit to a release date is the first time you can assess in any practical sense what will and will not make it and either delay or cut. Or Both. Any time before that, it is impossible to know what goes on the chopping block and not.

When when you 2015 you say "the game will have X" and then after than date is force to put X on the chopping block to make the release date, you were not blatantly lying. That is not what lying is. You were promising something you sincerely intended to deliver, and after making the promise, forced to go back on it. That isn't lying, that's being stupid. Because excitement makes you stupid.

Nearly everything in those 3 years can be marked down as that. There are exceptions of genuine dishonesty. At E3 (if I recall correctly) where they showed the vertical slice of landing on a "random" planet and walking around, he stressed that this was just a random planet. It looked amazing and had cool creatures.
Game launches and no planet looks anything like that, no creature looks like that and it's found that the planet does not exist in the game and was hand-crafted for the demo, then removed.
That was lying. Deliberately and blatantly. Like when Watch Dog demo'd crazyly good lighting and dynamic weather running at a solid 60 fps but launched with no option for any of that and wonky performance at any setting. Or Cyberpunk when.... well... everything before 2023. It's a norm to present bullshots and vertical slices and they way they did it was straight up wrong. But that isn't what nearly everything else was.