>That said, I'll still make my hot take here and say how I hate how gamers will praise review systems to help organically inform each other if products, but then abuse it (and likely bot it) whenever any slight inconvenience makes it way in here.
Your "slight inconvenience" is someone else's dealbreaker. Everyone has a right to an opinion. If many people are pissed off, especially about legitimate gripes like privacy-invasive accounts and subscription schemes being sprung on them, then they deserve to be heard. If they bought the game (or someone bought it for them) then they deserve to give a review, even if it's a review that you'd rather not hear.
I'd hope it wouldn't be a hot take to suggest that not every opinion is equal.
And that's my core issue. In spirit, you make a review to inform others of a product (many of whom have not experienced it), not to act as your personal mouthpiece for whatever political issue (unless your audience is in fact a political one. e.g. You have a review site based on LGBT friendly content). As such you need to keep an audience in mind for a review. I wouldn't make a review for Pokemon in the same way to someone who maybe played one game decades ago, compared to a fellow fan who's played nearly every main entry. Different audience, different content.
I appreciate different lenses, but for these general platforms your audience is often "interested in game, is it good?". I don't think making a PSN account is enough to say "game is bad, don't buy". So I wouldn't put that in a general user review anymore than I would complaining about some small story inconsistency from an Easter egg in a game (even if it itself is a controversy in the specific community).
But I'll admit this is a very personal quirk, perhaps outdated from a bygone era when communities were tight knit and you learned to talk differently with newcomers vs other regulars. General user reviews aren't very useful to me because there is simply so many ways to get the raw footage and see for myself if it has what I like. But I appreciate deeper comparisons and retrospectives after I played a game.
Your "slight inconvenience" is someone else's dealbreaker. Everyone has a right to an opinion. If many people are pissed off, especially about legitimate gripes like privacy-invasive accounts and subscription schemes being sprung on them, then they deserve to be heard. If they bought the game (or someone bought it for them) then they deserve to give a review, even if it's a review that you'd rather not hear.