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The thing about this meme is those people are either review bombing because "reasons", or they are all masochists, either way I would disregard them as spam and look for better reviews.
If they typed out an explanation like the game was massively changed for the worse after the vast majority of their game time then they are probably legit. Like if there was suddenly an additional 3rd party login added, or the game became unplayable due to a bug introduced and not fixed, or something along those lines.
Most "reasons" for players with thousands of hours tend to be pretty reasonable in my experience.
Review bombing is when people who did not play the game get influenced to downvote it.
People with thousands of hours don't fall under it.
If a group of people are influenced by whatever, and suddenly write a bunch of negative reviews I would consider that a review bomb if they played 0 hours, or 10k hours. Adding the weird stipulation that it needs to be people that never played it is not a requirement I've ever heard. Now is it more likely that the trolls will be people who haven't played, absolutely, because the low cost (nothing) of doing so while the people that play games are actually gaming.