You and I clearly have been around in different circles, then. I'm used to people bashing the ever loving crap out of FFX and calling it the worst in the series, which as someone whose got a soft spot for the actual worst FF in the franchise (Final Fantasy 8), I was amazed when some folks started going on about how much they loved, cherished, and thought Ten was up there for some of the best.
I think the thing to keep in mind when discussing things like this is that everyone is always going to have different experiences and different relations to the characters, story, and events. Honestly, as someone whose asked themselves some of the same questions that Hermes as asked himself, I probably felt closer to him than most and I could understand the reasons he went to the extent he did. A friend I know felt strongly for Zenos in Endwalker, because they knew what it was like to have that one thing that really made you feel like living... and then not to have it anymore and having life feel like nothing else.
Honestly, the thing I think Cthulhu was really going for was the fact that there ARE members who post in this thread and the FF side of this site often whole hate it just to hate it. And there are some who are probably over critical. The problem is justifying it. As Cthulhu said, going and saying 'there's no content, story sucks, yada yada' has to be taken with a bit more grain of salt, because there ARE those people who will hate things just to hate them.
That doesn't mean you can't dislike it. Lord knows I've never been a fan of Star Wars, for example. But there's quite a difference between 'I didn't enjoy this as much as others did' and 'This is a piece of crap that everyone needs to know is crap so they can stay away from this crap in the future. And it's usually easy to tell whose the later when it comes to stating their opinions.