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Player counts are a strange metric to use to try to support any sort of argument like this. Bayonetta is currently on a 70% off sale, and Hi-Fi Rush isn't on sale at all.

i said i believed it could have been even better if they paid attention to criticisms that put off the people who didn’t enjoy it.

What would you have them do? Change large swaths of a game after it's already been released and people really enjoyed it? Again, the game was shadow dropped. Most of these decisions were set in stone by the time anyone ever played it, and if you're going to iterate on feedback, you do it in the sequel.

also just looking at the percentages on the global steam achievements and most people do not even see the ending for a 9 hour game. The achievement for beating it on normal difficulty is …16%.

Most games have an astonishingly low completion rate. Hi-Fi Rush separates its achievements by difficulty. I have the achievement for beating the game on hard mode (which 9.1% of people have) but not on normal. So the actual completion rate for Hi-Fi Rush is somewhere between 16.6% and 31.5%, which is very normal. Your own example of Bayonetta has an achievement for beating the game on any difficulty, and it's only 19.7%; according to How Long to Beat, the games are a very similar length.

I think you need to better understand the sample set and context of the data you're reading and also understand that not every game is a live service. Thankfully, not every game is a live service. With any luck, we'll see far fewer of them, and then expectations like yours can begin to disappear.