That's not a strawman. If you read the last few pages you can see they are saying exactly that.
They blame "toxic fandom"(the people who have no control over the game other than merely providing feedback) for every shitty idea developer had(gym dlc in this case) instead of the developer(the people who made the game).
We were talking about "gym dlc", not the game.
People should of been more polite about the gym DLC. Absolutely. It's not my cup of tea, but it's worth a grind up to see the scenes once or twice and is only priced at 4 dollars. The vitriol and stuff had an impact on its development and it got released as is instead of after some more work.
Everything has an affect on everything. If anyone's gets online and suddenly is seeing a bunch of overly dramatic negative comments they are going to be discouraged.
Once again no one is actually saying that you can't have ideas as to how to improve the game.
Well, maybe they are now because your arguments tend to be so obstinate it becomes hard not to disagree with you because of who you are regardless of what you are saying.
What people are reacting the histrionic ineffective negativity.