Quote Originally Posted by ovIm View Post
That 79 is the critic score. Metacritic user reviews are at 5.9, and Steam Reviews are at an all time low (54% favorable) as well.
For reference, Shadowbringers had a Metacritic critic score of 90, a Metacritic user score of 9.1, and Steam reviews were Very Positive (86%)
And Endwalker was 92 for critics on Metacritic, 9.0 for users, with an 82% positive reviews on Steam.

Of course, while only seeing review scores as a metric can't give you the full story, when looking at how the review scores changed over time, you cannot deny that this expansion so far has not had the best impact on the player base. Thats not just "this forum being an echo chamber of extreme negativity", that is "this game has actual objective issues that people are talking about".
User reviews for Dawntrail in particular are a well that has been thoroughly poisoned.

Nobody's claiming DT is perfect. At worst, it's divisive. That's what Yoshi-P was reflecting on in my interpretation.