People pretend to like E33 simply to give the middle finger to the AAA industry and Ubisoft, nothing more.
No one genuinely like that game, let alone consider it worth the GOTY award.
It'll do well in Japan when they announce new language dubs (Japanese of course) and content during the game awards regardless of whether they win or not.
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Against Silksong, Death Stranding 2 and Bananza? It has absolutely no chance.
E33 is basically Bad Rats 2.0: a meme game that people bought for meme reasons.