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It still sold well and from what I understand is still selling. Articles like this are a big part of the reason devs have covertly shifted their beta phases to post-release. They can release a broken game, people will bitch, it'll still sell, and then after it's "complete" journos will give it a second wind praising it for "how good it is now". Devs take a few arrows but get off pretty much scot-free, early adopters take the biggest hit, and journos get to play both sides of the field.
Welcome to game dev 2021 brought to you in part by garbage gaming journalism.
Personally, the biggest issue that I have with Fallout: 76 is those online events and other non-stop stuff that was filling my hud. Everything is distracting me from playing the game at my own pace. I really liked Fallout 4 even with the flaws that it has, but I was not able to digest 76 and I tried it multiple times.