Did you even read the EXTRA links?! 😂🤣😂
No, I stopped after the first source cited failed to make any of your previous points.
In any event, your additional citations only point to displeasure from gamers relating to its free multiplayer aspect of the game, not the game in its entirety. I can never understand how gamers complain about a free aspect of any published game (unless an unfair advantage is posed in "pay to win"). You don't have to pay for additional cosmetic enhancements, they only make you look pretty, they don't help you win in this particular game. The only version of Halo: Infinite that you actually have to pay for is the single player experience.
Still curious to know what aggregate (not individual) source you use to define "overwhelmingly negative feedback" and that Metacritic is a SHILL....
From a data science perspective, it seems that Metacritic is the best aggregate rating source to use. The below link is specifically referencing movies, but I see no reason it wouldn't apply to game reviews as well.
https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/w...tomatoes-metacritic-or-fandango-7d1010c6cf19/
Steam also lists ALL REVIEWS as Mostly Positive (141,694) and I was only previously referring to the console version of this game as this Techspot article was about a potential console seller for MS.