I can't argue with a lot of his points, but I still love the game despite its significant issues
Although I will say that this whole thing about how Kojima should have stopped after 3 is garbage. The ambiguity of 2 and whether it was real or not or whatever is nice but most people aren't going to interpret it that way. In the end he made an outstanding game with tons of burning questions that demanded answers - they just could have been answered better. But to just outright not make the game would have been really unacceptable to me. I would have had zero closure for my favourite ever series, and that might sound entitled, but I'd rather sound a little entitled than be left blue-balled by something I love so much. Like I said, there's more elegant ways to do it than what we got with 4, but it needed to be made. I've never "seen eye to eye" with Kojima on him being so desperate to end it after 3.
Pretty much 100% this, except for MGS being my favorite game series (but it's top 5). I would have hated it if we got no closure whatsoever. I've typed what you wrote here dozens over times over the years and I'm always glad to see folks in agreement. The whole "just leave it wide open" argument is so ugh. ---