Argument by popularity leads to the conclusion that live services garbage is the best that gaming has to offer and One Direction is the best music. Let's please not go there.
Let's instead go have the world's best food at McDonald's.
It's also almost revoltingly disingenuous as an argument.
"a lot of people bought it anyway". So fucking what?
I bought it as well. Three years ago. That doesn't make me blind to the things the game handles poorly, nor it bars me from commenting on them.
And that's even ignoring that most of people who are buying the game on the trail of its hype-train do not even know enough about the game to have any settled opinion on its mechanics or balance.
Not to mention the ones that aren't simply equipped with enough knowledge of the genre to comment on it, to begin with.