Since the ones making claims about which opinion is the majority were those who claim the majority of players like the scions, it is their responsibility to prove it. If their only source is the popularity poll in which Emet and Hythlodaeus secured a significant portion of the vote, that may not be the best evidence they should be using. The highest ranking scion only got 5.8% of the vote as opposed to Emet's 17.2%. Even if we assume that every other scion ranks the exact same, that's 40.6% of the vote. That therefore tells me that a minority of the playerbase loves the scions. (The actual combined results for the scions was 23%, not even 6% more than Emet alone.) It is also important to consider that the scions are not merely individuals, they are a group. Just because a scion is liked by some people doesn't mean the rest are liked by those same people. Just because some scions are fairly liked individually, doesn't mean people necessarily enjoy them as a team.

We don't know how many people who voted for the highest ranking scion thought to themselves, "I love this character, but I don't feel much attachment to the rest. In fact I was wishing we could get some time off from the scions for a bit." We don't know how many did that for each of them, just as much as we don't know how many view the scions highly favourably and were struggling to pick a favorite out of them. We don't know how many people love a character but would prefer if they bowed out for the next expansion to get some new blood in the team. We don't know any of that. So, again, if people are going to claim that the scions are widely liked as a group, and that most people want all of them to stick around, the burden of proof is on them to justify this position.

What is known is that nearly 1/5 of the poll's sample (at the time of the poll) prefers at least one of the villains to the rest of the cast that regularly consumes the most screentime. Nearly 1/5 of the sample decided that a villain is more interesting than any given good guy in the story. What we can assume from this is that almost 1/5 of the playerbase sees something in Emet's writing and/or design that cannot be found in the main cast. That's a large number. I will not claim that the majority of the playerbase likes the villains more than the heroes but the percentages behind Emet and Hythlodaeus would be much stronger support for that case than the 6% for the highest ranking scion.