It's a very choice-based game and other players' choices affect you too, so in reality if it's shitty then it's a combination of you and the world's choices
I like what The Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy has to say about it:
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"In the beginning the universe was created. This made a lot of people very unhappy and has widely been regarded as a bad move."
I kinda like the Terry Pratchett version: “It was said that life was cheap in Ankh-Morpork. This was of course, completely wrong. Life was often very expensive; you could get death for free.”
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"In the beginning the universe was created. This made a lot of people very unhappy and has widely been regarded as a bad move."