>>48476BG3 was one of the only ones that sold 'shitloads' of copies on its merits. The game overall was very good, the woke stuff was as I said before a debuff - putting eye rolling nonsense in a fantastic game makes it less fantastic but it still may be very good.
Horizon was made worse in Forbidden West (including the infamous redesigns for Aloy) but the copies sold were heavily bolstered by HZD / HFW both being pack-ins sold with consoles. It was a decent game made worse by demands to uglify the protagonist among other decisions.
Perhaps one of the best examples are games like the Marvel related sony games, particularly Spider Man 2 and Wolverine. Spider-Man 2 is mechanically, superior to its previous titles and having Venom show up will of course be a crowd pleaser. However, there was a lot of the often memed stuff that was directly resultant for letting consultants direct too much of development notably the infamous SweetBaby. Lots of the "woke" stuff brought down the title and would have been better without it (many, many, many examples), but it was still a spider-man game. Wolverine allowed the rot to get to critical levels to the point it affected core gameplay mechanics as well as aesthetics and story elements; a very troubled development hobbled game is made far worse by performative idpol nonsense as there isn't much else for people to say "Well aside from that, it was good". The well of "good" had run dry so the debuff of wokeness really ended up being a critical hit, leading to many of the responses to the title focusing on those aspects. Where with SM2 it was a "look at how much good stuff we could have had if the wokeness could have gotten out of the way" this game did't have that assurance