Not disagreeing with your point in general but it's kinda unobjective negatively rating a game for not having animations when there's no animations tag. That'd be like negatively rating the game because there's no necrophilia or NTR in it.
Yea no that's fair.
Though I do see animations as being different. It's the same as Sandbox or any other kinda meta tags. I understand taking those things into account for rating, but as I said, some people put too much weight on them. Things like this are more about how a game is made, and so do effect it's quality to one degree or another.
Kinda conflicted on your point about necro or NTR, because specifically those are things that don't lend themselves to most games, they wouldn't and couldn't be expected of most games. Where's something like animation, could, though shouldn't, be expected of most games.
All that said, it is typically better to judge for is in a game, than what is not. But what is not in something can also be important.