I'll try the game for myself, but honestly... it doesn't have much appeal. It incorporates a number of elements that have been done in greater depth in other games,
But not together.
and doesn't really bring anything new or exciting to the table.
Mixing all those genres/subgenres together is exiting in my book.
It's fairly easy to see why some people may be negatively pre-disposed toward the game, particularly when it's in a constant state of implicit comparison to Original Sin--a much more exciting title.
My money is on it being too hard to put a label on it, that tends to confuse people. People don't like being confused.