Why Silksong got a 9 on IGN

The reviewer's 2 main issues were

1: The balancing of Crests through tool slots, 'just because you have a different down attack shouldn't mean you can't do something else'

2: The gather quests, calling them boring and not innovative, saying they were 'inescapable' towards the endgame, probably referring to the Hearts quest although I refuse to accept that that was what he's talking about

If he wanted to find 2 problems with the game, he probably shouldn't have chosen those ones