This is what I feel happened with Starfield (not to the same extent, but still).

Everyone hyped the hell of it, it released, huge collective “meh”, and two weeks later it was mostly forgotten.

I had already had enough of Todd Howard and Bethesda’s bullshit at this point, so I was just wondering why that was even hyped so much to begin with.

At least I used to like Bethesda. I don’t even give a shit about GTA, so Rockstar can crash and burn for all I care.