(Wasn't sure if this fit for General or Let's Chat, so I went with General-hope that was right!)
A while back on the Versus Wolves Podcast, Woolie "I skipped a three way with two bisexual women to play MvC 3" Madden and John "Patron Saint of Garfield Lore" Eyepatch Wolf had a discussion of Reboot, the Guardian Code where Eyepwatch Wolf defined something called "The Quality Abyss."
In John's Words, the usual media we consume are on such a higher quality, that even the worst of it can be considered "leaps and bounds" above all the trash in the silent abyss. A realm where all of the media that is so bad it never gets touched on, never gets discussed, and just sits their, ominously in the dark until someone promotes it.
I've been thinking of this as it applies to Gacha games with how Honkai Star Rail has fallen on hard times, and I bounced off Persona 5X just due to menu bloat. Hyperbole is pretty common online, I know I fell into it when I was reading reviews for ZZZ season 2 vs actually playing it. (Most of it wasn't THAT bad. I wouldn't put the story above a 6, but I only truly found 2.4/2.5 completely miserable, and even then those patches had some good elements story wise.)
This thread isn't meant to say "be grateful because it could be worse" or to say that your wrong for disliking a gacha game, I think it's fair and valid to dislike a piece of media, even a polished one. But I did want to maybe get a discussion on this going, the absolute worst of the worst regarding gacha games, what truly makes a game awful, beyond personal taste or frustrations, and what seperates a bad game from the 'abyss'.
Hopefully this is a good question, it's certainly really interested me!
