Imagine using this energy for actually productive change, over being angry that you're being slightly inconvenienced.
Pretty much what happened is it wasn't advertised that you would need an epic games account to play the multiplayer, and people are angry about it for some reason. Likely because it's Epic, not because they had to make an account, though knowing Gamers they probably would be pissed about about having to make an account outside of steam too.
And it's funny because the one discord server I usually hang out on that has pretty chuddy people on it largely had a reaction of "Sure it sucks, but there's a lot bigger fish to fry in the games industry."
I think it's totally a thing people do to buy a game and leave a negative review and then refund it, and things like that. Maybe I'm just underestimating the visceral Gamer knee-jerk to Epic, but simply requiring another account without saying so upfront (which both of us would give it a negative review for, to be clear) seems like it wouldn't be enough with a general audience to push reviews down as far as they are. Maybe I'm dumb, though