Yeah, people - in general - tend to do this with anything novel, sadly - especially novel design. See what Steve Balmer said about the iPhone for a commercial example. For Engineering examples, well, see the controversy around anything by Poettering (Systemd, PulseAudio, etc., etc.).
I think it is sort of different, though, Balmer was motivated to minimize the iPhone because they were his competition. It is an attempt to manipulate people. This odd thing where commenters online are never impressed by any tech thing, I’m not sure what the motivation is. They don’t even get a reputation for being so clever and jaded, because they are mostly pseudonymous.
The first iPhone, running iOS v1, was kinda shit. It's easy to look at what the iPhone is today and laugh at Ballmer, but I don't think what he said was wrong at the time he said it.
