Certain attitudes toward certain companies will guarantee upvotes, even if it doesn’t accurately reflect the actions the company has just taken. They’re just farming upvotes, clicks, ads, etc.
I’ve yet to find any way to “fix” the situation. People aren’t interested in being open-minded. They just want to push some endorphins and move on.
And you can even return it, if it’s released and you haven’t installed it… Or if it’s on Steam, and you played it less than 2 hours.
There really isn’t a lot of reason to strenuously avoid pre-ordering if you’re pretty sure you’ll buy it at release.
And even better, a lot of games have pre-installs that can save you time at release. You could be playing the game instead of being mad that it isn’t downloaded yet.
There are even games that already do this. I still end up second-guessing, but at least “you last saved 8 seconds ago” makes me pretty sure I got it.