Yes, that's a fair enough reaction. It's a little hard to believe just how big a glut of RPGs came along on the PS1 (and that was just one console at the time), and a collective 'meh' reaction is pretty understandable. But it generated a rather large amount of hate from even normally neutral players very quickly, at least from what I observed at the time. Personally I just found it kinda boring, and forgettable. Compared to what else was out there, that qualifies as crap I suppose.

Every once in a blue moon I'd look it up and see if any ever cared about it, but then I eventually stopped caring altogether about video games for a while in favor of various tabletop pursuits. But then I came back and after some fairly tempestuous times got back into a position where I could actually collect and OWN that glut of lovely lovely RPGs. And I noticed that Threads was nowhere to be found locally. There's plenty available online, though, and then I found some articles that actually painted it in a positive light. I was wondering when and if attitudes changed and why, or if it was just us local pack of nerds deciding to lose our minds the same way for the same reasons over dumb stuff for once instead of losing our minds and splitting into factions over dumb stuff like usual.