What bothers me about this video and the public perception that stemmed from it is that it feels aimed at people who will never play the game. It's a nice story about a developer everyone was dunking on back on 2016, but wow! They had a redemption arc.
Incidentally a lot of people outside this forum use the same language to talk about bannerlord, even going so far as to directly compare them. I've had half a dozen interactions with people which are like this:
A: Bannerlord is an example of how Devs SHOULD do early access...the amount of content theyve added in such a short time is insane. They really pulled a No Man's Sky after their shoddy release.
B: But the game is still broken and boring. Nothing about the core gameplay has significantly changed. Have you played the game recently?
A: No, I'm waiting for the final release. But looking at the changelogs, it looks great!
I want to call this "The Resonant effect". Everyone who actually plays the game finds his sensationalist clickbaity videos cringey, but to a non-player they see titles like "MAAAAAAASSSIVE UPDATE NO CAP FR FR" and assume this means the game is fundamentally different now. It goes to show how much youtube clickbait trends can affect or even manufacture public perceptions of a game.
They're not going to pull a NMS, and I feel bad for people who wait for the final release only to find essentially the same game they dropped in 2020.