why are people so resistant to constructive criticism about the game?

[jameseoakes]

If you're interested in reasonable discourse about the game, tertiary communities like r/FFXIVdiscussion have cropped up to give people access to a more reasonable platform. Otherwise, you just kind of have to learn to laugh at all the strange people and take it in stride.

Not sure I'd call that reddit reasonable it can have some good discussions but alot of the people there seem to be the kinds of people who are too toxic for the forums and the main reddit so it often seems a toxic echo chamber.