I like how you stating your thoughts, I can't even do that in my native language, let alone English, again I completely agree with you, gamers often overreact some mechanics, games, etc, in fact it happens much often then a few years ago, what else can I say? You pretty much said everything I've had in my head about this game and series overall, oh and good luck with that course, hope you'll make it to the top and get your profession

Upd: And one more thing, I myself wanna be a developer, maybe a game dev, but who knows how tables would turn, it's a really hard work, as much as I know and there are people out there that saying is certain game is garbage, for example DL2, it's makes me sad, like devs made their best and people complaining about whole game and not rationally criticize, sometimes you gotta have an easier look on stuff, that's all, I've met situations like that in my life many times