Just passing by to say that with a little fiddling, you can get Morrowind running on your phone, touch screen controls and all if you don't have a gamepad.
At this point just assume that anything even slightly not "wholesome" is going to be deleted by the mods here. I wouldn't be surprised if this comment also got deleted for pointing that out.
Everyone already posted what I initially though so: Toxic positivity, the whole "no criticism allowed, only good thoughts" crowd. I'm not going to directly point fingers, but some instances on Lemmy have a severe case of this.
Not really going to waste my time reading Polygon, but to answer the hypothetical question: I think most people agree it wasn't a full on Bio/System Shock game, more a corridor shooter, but a decently fun one nonetheless. I think most of the complaints I've seen over the years were about some of the political aspects of the writing, not the gameplay itself.
Honestly? It's mostly bullshit, you won't be able to notice much of a difference at all unless you're using very high-end headphones plus an amplifier at the very minimum. The reality is most (if not all) consumer grade audio devices can't reproduce the fine details in lossless files without some sort of audiophile setup and even then they're so discrete you usually need a trained ear to notice them, so basically most people are paying for a placebo while they'd be better served with lossy formats like good old mp3.
Just passing by to say that with a little fiddling, you can get Morrowind running on your phone, touch screen controls and all if you don't have a gamepad.