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I think it comes down at least in part to a manifestation of self-awareness of one's own lack of accomplishments, or to put that another way, jealousy.
When a single individual spends a lot of time and effort making something amazing, there are two ways to respond. You can either appreciate and congratulate their efforts, or you can shit all over it.
In many ways, being critical and dismissive is a lot easier on one's own psyche, especially if you are a person who is secretly disappointed and depressed in yourself for not achieving anything. It's a defence mechanism to reassure yourself that spending all that time was wasted pointless effort - that even if you spent that time, it would be equally wasted too.
Accepting that someone else actually set out and did something cool all by themselves, with no luck required, just willingness and effort, is accepting that YOU could have done that too, if you tried. You could have been that person. But you weren't.
It's a lot "safer" to be hostile.