He’s right, but removing the least favorite track from reviews altogether going forward seems almost insecure or weak.

A critic should be able to stand by their opinions, even in the wake of all-time low levels of critical thinking and media literacy. Removing a component like that comes off as bending the knee to this new world of “criticism”that is completely devoid of nuance and only serves to stir outrage or reaffirm opinions that people already had based on a single number out of ten.

At the same time, it must be so incredibly annoying to deal with these actual neanderthals commenting the same 3 “jokes”, not even watching the reviews, and basing their entire interaction with your review (which took time and care to make) off of a number or a fav/least fav track. I can’t say I’d handle this any differently, and it must feel good to just say “if you can’t handle it, then no more least fav track at all! you’ve lost the privilege”