But not in that grumpy, clueless "I'M TOTALLY AGAINST WHATEVER THAT IS NOT IN RULESET FOR TABLETOP!" angle that usually summarizes their takes.

Only if you are blind/oblivious/illiterate.
There are people here that wrote BOOKS on the negative effect of some changes.
It's like as it was with the horrendous armor system in DOS 2: hundreds of posts explaining in painful detail what didn't work with it and Larian and their defenders going "Nu-uh, it's great, you don't like it just because it's new but you'll come around eventually".
Only to admit a year later in a post-mortem that it was terrible and it was a mistake to ship with it.