This is not surprising because the dynamics at play here is that antivirus software is just boring, people prefer to review the newest shiny GPUs, CPUs and othe

This is not surprising because the dynamics at play here is that antivirus software is just boring, people prefer to review the newest shiny GPUs, CPUs and other gear, but few want to deal with boring stuff. Therefore antivirus companies typically select the media outlets and pay them regularly for ads and reviews. Therefore it's quite rare for a tech review site to run a big story on how bad antivirus software is, unless they do something extremely bad like Avast last year.