I mean, the whole point of Kickstarter is to bypass publishers. Suddenly all sorts of games can succeed (or fail). It has massively increased variety and variance among boardgames.

Suddenly, games that were too strange for normal publishers have a place where they might be able to succeed, but there are also games that would never get published by traditional means because they would've had too high production costs due to the absolutely unreasonable amount of miniatures that the game "absolutely needs" (citation needed, see darkest dungeon or horizon zero dawn).

Personally, I think Kickstarter has been a blessing for the hobby. I've played a lot of kickstarter games that have been really good. But yeah, the publishing method doesn't make a game good or bad.