The main reason people call it a disastrous launch is because it was Sony, right after the best selling console on the world, the PS2.
If it was any other company, the launch would be considered a huge success despite the controversy but for it to go toe to toe to the successor of OG Xbox, which in your own words didn’t do that great is a pretty big fall.
I’m usually neutral towards the music I don’t like because well it’s subjective. However I’m currently an active Nickelback hater as a response to this new wave that claims Nickelback hate was just a meme and undeserved. I don’t have an issue with people enjoying unoriginal or uninspired music, I do it all the time. But praising something that is not there annoys me. insert old man yells at cloud meme