When AS came out people weren't ranting and raving about how bad the art was or that the main toy was terrible. OK some didn't like the theme but nobody was saying that AS is complete garbage because it looked like some love was put into that game.
We all want Stern to succeed and if there is criticism of something like tie-on-a-spring being the only toy in SW (or whatever) it might ACTUALLY be about the actual thing we are criticizing. So please don't oversimplify criticism of Stern as being something like being for or against some sports team.
To me, SW was an intelligence test to see how little customers would still be happy with (guess what - lots of people still love it). Only those will little or no imagination don't wish for what SW could have been. This was the possibly the biggest license of all time. It was a theme about using the force and magnets were cut from design. They hyper-drive has very little to do with Star Wars at all for heaven's sake yet they take the HS2 toy from 1992 and make it the main toy of the LE (and nobody notices - almost everyone raves about the great theme integration).
But my hope is that SW was a market-test done just once and that they will hit GOTG out of the park. It's got to be better than SW.
On the other hand, if GOTG is just a (mirror-image) reskin of SW with Groot-on-a-spring, not a single magnet and only one song from the movies, I hope more collectors will at least notice.
My point is that there is a positive side to criticism and that we are actually talking about the actual product and not just for or against Stern. We all want them to release fantastic games because we love pinball.