Skyrim - Why the RPG Hate at Rampant Games

Jay Barnson from Rampant Games has written an editorial  where all the rpg-hate seems to be coming from. Read it on his blog. He's been inspired by this article over at IGN, apparently, anti-Skyrim rpg piece. I'm putting it under Skyrim since this is where Jay Barnson got his inspiration from. An excerpt from Jay's blog:

Which brings me to the question of the title of the article. Why is it so popular these days for journalists to bash on a subgenre that’s been an endangered species for over a decade? Why the fear and loathing of RPGs? Why the RPG hate? I don’t know if many of the folks in question have actually played an honest-to-goodness hardcore stats-heavy RPG before. Or maybe all the stats in Mass Effect taxed their patience. Or maybe they are tilting at mental windmills based on secondhand descriptions and brief encounters with older games that were unplayable without RTFMing** (a skill that seems to have been lost in the mists of time now).