It must be a cultural thing because I don't find those reviews devastating.

I would be fine being the recipient of this. It's simple, direct, clear, and give you a good sense of how bad things are and the priority of it.

If you fuck up, you fuck up.

I feel utterly disgusted by the opposite however. The "I like it but I don't love it" and other BS.

Feels like hypocrisy and frankly, behavior from people that don't have enough serious problems in their life to assess what is important and what is not.