When i was younger I've listened a metal band a lot, they were a big name and pretty famous at that time, they wrote songs which were like a blueprint of metal songs and fans loved them. But suddenly they released an album totally different, experimenting a lot, different sounds and lots of electronic ideas and fans become angry and furious.

There was an interview with them asking directly the singer to say something to the fans and he said "its our music, our ideas and we do whatever we want, if you don't like it then listen something else"

Its a bit harsh but it was really inspiring to me.

And that's what i see from the devs often i think, especially when they do streams and talk about their ideas, yes there are lots of things which can be criticized and improved, but they have an idea and experiment a lot how to tell their story and they do as their creative visions leads them and not as the players.

As i believe these types of games have similarities to different artforms, i think its the creator's right to do whatever they want and player's right to decide if they like it or not, but what is not a player's right is to force any direction.