Because Joel is the main guy, the guy people know and love.

So because these people are children then?

If we played as Abby first, people would have been rooting for her to kill Joel and consider him the evil one but expecting people to judge fictional characters in some unbiased objective lens is just not going to work lol.

Because these people are children lol, you even mention sports fandom which is like manchild 101.

It’s like your sports team. When the Wizards get called for a foul it’s always bullshit in my opinion but when the other team does, it’s a good call. I am extremely biased and unfair but I do not care.

The do not care part is where the idiocy comes in. I'm a Celtics fan who just watched his team get dumpstered but I'm not going to act like a child and say it was "bullshit".

Being biased is being human, being incapable of identifying bias and attempting to adjust for it is simply being an idiot.