Perhaps it's YOU that should go look up Arkham knight's metacritic score. Many of the professional game critics that acknowledge the serious bugs and issues in the game still gave it a very high score, whereas the user reviews are all atrocious. That actually lines up quite directly with my "rant".

You're talking like absolutely everyone who has played the game has had gamebreaking bugs, and therefore every single reviewer did too.

No, I'm not. You, on the other hand, are talking like a butthurt fanboy who doesn't like my opinion, and is trying to stuff a bunch of words and motivations into my mouth that I don't actually have, nor care about. let me break it down for you since you obviously didn't read what I wrote:

In short, if reviewers can't muster up the courage to score a game based on their own acknowledgement of serious issues in said game, specifically by giving OBJECTIVE technical issues the same weight and importance that they give their SUBJECTIVE views on things like story and gameplay, then gamers will inevitably do it for them, and the backlash with inevitably be ugly, ironically MUCH uglier than it would have been had reviewers simply been more forthright about what they were playing, and more honest with their scores.

This is what's happening right now. This is the direct answer to the question posed by the thread OP, which is all I'm saying.

The worst part of your rant is that you're imposing your values on everyone else and demanding that everyone else change how they view games to align more with yours.

...I have no idea what you're talking about. nobody is imposing values on anybody. calm the fuck down and stop making shit up.