"The Vision we Presented in this Demo evolved into something that got multiple 9/10s and 10/10s"
Woah, sounds like a Cheap Excuse to Half Ass a Game. Plus of course it did, it's the Start of the Sales and when you tried so hard to keep everyone from showing off any footage before release, doesn't really take that much effort to get high ratings when you try to control viewing of the game. Not as surprised though, The Sales Screams "This game is Great, It Sold Millions!!" but the Devs inside seem to beg a differ. Ex or Not, those that do try to come out even during Development seem to agree, this Game Sucked. Definitely did not meet much if any of their Standards and seem to really Wish they could've had more time to do it Better.
Hell by the look of it, it wasn't even a Game by the time they announced a day straight up to Release, they barely had any general idea what to do and just Winged it all the way. Slapping anything and everything together by the deadline to make Some sort of a Game.