It's not a game, think of it as a long FMV sequence which barely requires any input at all through it all, except in one quicktime event.

Isn't that a pretty well-established genre going back at least to the 1980s? I'm pretty out of date on modern games, but I do remember Heavy Rain being widely acclaimed 15 years ago. There's gotta be something else that explains the vitriol against this new game.