>but I bought it because it's still Pokémon

Doesn't that also mean that the game's not terrible?

Because Monster Hunter also notoriously had some of the worst reviews for quite a while, without the playerbase giving the slightest shit as the games kept getting better and better, and only recently managed to swing the reviews with Worlds.

In Pokemon's case, there's a lot of stuff that they aren't adding to the game, but they're keeping the formula intact of encountering cute pokemons, capturing them, evolving them, and just having a fluid gameplay of monster catching. If anything, S&S' and Let's Go!'s attempts to shake things up would justify the low ratings.

Now, Scarlet/Violet definitely had their fair share of technical issues, which would imo warrant those bottom spots more than whatever got BD&SP in the dump.