Well the issue was that the developers lied. They explicitly stated that certain features and functionality would absolutely be in the game at launch... and the

Well the issue was that the developers lied. They explicitly stated that certain features and functionality would absolutely be in the game at launch... and they weren't. And then when people tried to ask questions about it, the developers disappeared. They were totally MIA for a while (a couple months?). So it wasn't just hype, and it certainly wasn't about "millennial gamers". It was about people paying for a game and not getting the game they believed they had paid for.