What's larious regarding Madden which is the sole NFL licensee of a videogame franchise, now 34 years old is that despite its immense popularity, there is nothing you hear is people complaining about it.
The most frequent complaint, which is repeated often, is that every year's new version is just an incremental improvement over the last. Because EA Sports has the exclusive license, it's the only company that can make the "simulation-style" NFL game. Therefore, it is clear that EA Sports is in no pressure to improve the game each year.
In 2020, a viral campaign on Twitter urged the league to sign EA as its partner - #NFLDropEA. But even with the social media furore, which also involved coordinated review-bombing of the game's Metacritic website, Madden 21 sales were way up. The Madden 22 of this year Madden 22 did well, also, and the series continues to be the best-selling sports franchise of all time.
The critics come from an extremely vocal minority, but one of the minority groups whose work is to be extremely vocal