A lot of the problems become from the culture of having reviews done by professionals and even people who are incentivised in a perverse way to leave good reviews. Even youtubers and other influencers have a price and they certainly can make anything look very good or even try to appear very objective while actually not giving a correct impression.
Best advice: use this forum for it.
And in exchange they will be tarnishing the brand that they've spent countless of hours on just to put out some reviews for a platform that is not even half-good. I'd say that's a pretty good deal for us who are fed with these fake reviews as we will be witnessing the downfall of these brands together with the platform that they paid in order to make themselves look good.
I agree that it is somehow best to use this forum as a reference before making that first deposit on a platform because there is a huge chance that the platform that you're wanting to play into already has a review dedicated here in the gambling section (albeit the amount of mess that the section has).