brainwave about the game difficulty wank

Do self-identifying gamers get so mad about people wanting accessibility options because they read that criticism coming from a place of entitlement (or preference, to use a less harsh word) as their complaints about the lack of preferred features/content?

Can it be that simple?

It would explain why they seem to mentally add "and that's why it's bad" at the end of "this game lacks accessibility features" and then argue that the germ jurnalists are dishonestly not judging the game by its own merit. You also see this pattern any time a journo says anything positive about a game's diversity -- the argument the self-identified gamer sets out to debunk isn't "this game is good and diverse" but rather "the diversity makes this game good"