The funniest thing about Volcano High is that, had it not been shown off at the presentation, literally nobody would have cared. It would have been another dime-a-dozen stupid indie shit made by pretentious woke hipsters that pops up on Steam and other digital stores but nobody ever buys. At the same time, it would have at least appealed to its smaller audience; those people would have lapped it up, it gets some attention among douchebag journalists, maybe some streamers mock it, and it's forgotten about in a week,
By showing it off at the presentation debuting one of the most anticipated consoles out there, the game got exposed to normies' eyes, and this is the result. Normal gamers don't want this shit, and it having such a hideous artstyle is certainly doing it no favors. The developers were probably thinking that this was their big chance to open to a wider audience, not realizing literally nobody outside their group gives a shit. They should have just not bothered.