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It's like phones with smaller screens: they always sell poorly in comparison when available and then it's all you hear about online when it's not.

The usual tricks of "noise signals how many are really upset in absolute terms, not the relative popularity", "people will still make noise about what they don't like regardless if that's more popular overall", and "people who hate one attribute of the product can often still like it enough to buy overall".



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