Oh yeah, TC, I will talk negatively about WoW outright and still love the game. Even when I was a forum MVP I would constantly point out hypocrisies in design choices and stuff I didn’t like. My biggest claim to fame was my thread on the Brutosaur mount with probably the most likes I have ever seen from any of my posts as an MVP XD
I think that if you really like something it’s easy to criticize it because you want it to be better because you know it can be better! If you genuinely did not like a game you wouldn’t put effort into criticizing choices. And I will admit, I can be a hypocrite and be dismissive of some people’s posts when it seems like it’s not genuine, its low effort, or just feels like trolling. But I think if you truly love something you want to see it be better and are willing to say whatever you can to do so.
Just my two cents.