The fact that there was very likely no "good" options for your decisions as king was probably my biggest issue.
So I can either do A and bring money to my people but pollute the air or I can do B and have a kingdom of fresh air and poor people starving to death. Either way they'll hate me. Why would I go through the entire game as a goody-two-shoes prince if everyone was going to hate me in the end?
There was no middle ground. I couldn't do A to a degree but just enough for a small benefit to my people. It's either total pollution or complete starvation.
The fact my kingdom was deserted with the exception of, like, 5 haters, really didn't help.
Unless it was some reference to the relationship between gamers and developers. No matter what they do, they'll get ridiculed. Not sure they should let a "message" get in the way of a game.