Yet those niche nolife hardcore fans is exactly what makes or breaks games. If 10,000 unhappy hardcore fans will go around pouring shit on your game and company then you likely never get 1,000,000 players who could've potentially liked it.

Nolife hardcore fans will also be the the first to buy your game, review it and tell everyone if they did not liked it.

CDPR got huge amount of trust after Witcher 3 and they mostly had to start over after CP2077 release.

EA can survive if 4/10 of their games flops completely, but company like CDPR will likely just end there.