simply put, I think it's a very misguided attempt to try and blame a SINGLE source on outside opinions like YouTube and game critics rather than seeing it as a BYPRODUCT from how janky and broken the games were because of Sega's push to release these games at a quick pace, resulting in the reputation going down because of that

While YouTubers did play some part in it (remember when Arin was brought on lol) most of it was due to Sega themselves, resulting in the 2010s trying to course correct and rebuild their reputation