Thomas Mahler had a similar sentiment. You are just reading the reviews wrong

I’m also saying that most of those downvotes come from the potential you have seen for that game that just wasn’t realized or steered away from, like a different interpretation of Early Access for example.
Or a this game is so good until a certain point and then the endgame grind is just god awful.

sadly with steam we cant have a X/10 review every 10/20/X hours and see how that review changes over time. we only have that one last review. which to me is a missed opportunity, because it woudl also show the journey and when the mood started to change.

because a negative review in the end would still be able to show that some games are actual 8+/10 for the most time and just stumble into a negative review at the very end…