In what regards? Because other than arguably cinematography and renders all of those names wipe the floor with SG.
Cinematography, renders, music, storytelling, characters development, inter-characters dynamic, emotional involvement. I would have been happy as elephant if you have showed me some titles at least as good as SG, except maybe ten or fifteen well-known hits mentioned in every user's footer here. And I've tried at least a couple of hundends VNs recently - I would rather put something like SG or Connected on repeat.
The main plot has us going into a dinner to steal a phone of the acquaintance of the man we are trying to frame, without actually knowing that there is anything wrong the man has done to be found And befriending the gf of the son of the man...
The MC is a moderate asshole, that's for sure. But he is the *character*, we got to know him, the author has painted it very well, his mental issues, his motivation, worries and fears, his relations with the others and its dynamic. We can shape his personality, make a trench-coat-school-shooter of him or a caring brother, son, friend (and lover. maybe. in distant future). He is not just a plastic male model for the next lewd scene. At that's what were my credits for. Regarding his moral principles... Let's say D'artagnan was a bigger piece of asshole in his youth, but the millions of people love "The Three Musketeers" since 1844 and reading it nowdays.
Because Ocean is such a good artist and does inter-character tension so good, the celling for him as a dev is set high, that most people give him the benefit of the doubt more than to others, because we have high hope he improves all the other aspects of development.
But that good will only lasts so much, he seems stuck in vicious 'perfectionism cycles', over ambitious plans and keeps telling himself, or at least to the audience that he will for sure deliver when he makes it big like all the 'others devs'.
I would say the most people like what they see in SG, so they let all these flaws slide. And this is because of the Ocean is such a good artist and does inter-character tension so good

"Perfectionism cycle" has an obvious purpose - make it to the Steam.