I can't really hate palworld, regardless of the content. 3D, physics, multiplayer, decent performance, a nice presentation, nice UI, giant world clearly a ton of people enjoy running around in.
Tick any two of those boxes and I'm pretty much out. Video games are very hard to make, even the ones accused of being low-effort, soulless, or uncreative.
The primordial soup of assets and mechanics sloshing around the steam cistern produces new popular things regularly.
