Sega released a whole visual novel where the player has to solve the mystery of Sonic's apparent murder. That was well received online, and got a ton of high review scores:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Murder_of_Sonic_the_Hedgeh...

And Minecraft usually releases joke updates on that day, which have been at least somewhat well received:

https://minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Category:April_Fools%27

Maybe it works better when a company releases a ludicrous product as a joke, and that said product is actually available for the customers to use.