I think we just have this romanticized idea on cancelled games and naturally oppose the big bad higher ups who took down said games and never stop to think "Maybe the game wasn't working?"
And yeah, there are definitely horror stories where executive meddling did in fact ruined everything but sometimes a game is just...bad and couldn't be salvaged.
We have this instinct to immediately cry out and lament these "wastes of potential" over fucking bare bones concept art or literal sentences but the second we see a cancelled game leaked that we don't like we proceed to trash it and celebrate it being a stillborn.