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I've found online feedback useful. You just have to be careful about where you get it and take it with a grain of salt. A very large one.
If someone is being mean and negative it's fine to ignore. If someone is giving constructive feedback that's negative it's more worthwhile
If someone gives you tips, advice, or constructive feedback: there's a good chance they're worth listening to.
Hostile, critical with no other feedback : almost certainly garbage.
The first comment in the image, to my mind, wasn't actually bad. It didn't tell them not to do something and it wasn't critical. It just said they the category was very saturated and they should temper their expectations.
And, you're also entirely correct that you should take even the feedback worth listening to with a grain of salt, or maybe a shaker. :) There's a thousand and one ways to do anything, and it can be difficult to convey the difference between "this is how I would do it" and "this is how you should do it".
(Doing software code reviews is a skill that can help teach the difference, and not everyone learns it)
I've noticed a lot of people who give advice online can't think for themselves and therefore cannot tolerate anyone doing anything differently from them.
Once I recognized that such an idiot exists and is prevalent on online forums, it became very easy to write them off whenever I see them.
The average internet user is about as smart as the average person these days. We need to dig in order to find intelligence; it's not the norm.
Realising this is the key to understand that if you even try to do things differently, you will face people who need to tell you that you are wrong. But you should keep doing what you are doing exactly because you are doing it differently.