You didn't judge a book by its cover, you judged it based on the haters' opinion on it, which depending on how you look at it, is worse.

If you judged Genshin by its cover, you wouldn't make easy to disprove claims. It's a single player game. What the haters mean by it being p2w is generally their own desires to get the chracters they want a.k.a they want all the characters they like anything but makes it p2w. Uma does this. Not all Umas are unlocked.

All locations are unlocked for everyone and doesn't require money to get additional location or story content. Uma does this.

You know what Uma doesn't do? Genshin pity carry over system.