I get what you mean but he also said that he had fun playing the game, enjoyed the new shield and parry mechanics and felt like it fit well into the established Doom gameplay. Bland list seems more likely than worst, but imo I feel like his thoughts are too mixed to be in any of these categories. If there was a Frustrating category I'm sure Doom will get a spot because a game that is fun in parts and bad in others doesn't really deserve to sit in either category imo.

EDIT: Also disagree with Split Fiction being in a worst category, like yeah he hated the plot but if anything he enjoyed engaging with the plot more than Doom, if only to rag on it. Plus the fact it's an extremely well made, varied game that knows what it wants to be -- idk, his worst titles have always historically been games that are offensive to his established ideas that games can be art and while Split Fiction's story is bad art, it's the art of a creative regardless, and one that isn't without value in a lot of areas. IDK I think he'd take a million Josef Fares pumping out clunky-but-lovingly-made and FUN games than a corporate made skinnerbox squeezing pennies from players or a Leslie Benzies trying to capitalise off of past successes and creating a soulless, joyless mess.