"Poisoning the well" presumes users can't tell the difference between a cardboard box and purpose built hardware. I know it's fun to laugh at "lusers", but people really aren't that dumb and deserve to be treated with a little bit more respect than that.
I agree with this. Every product category in existence has a range of good and bad versions. I think people are smart enough to not lump all VR experiences together just like watching a bad movie or eating a bad pizza doesn't put you off them for life.
Also, you can't stop people releasing whatever VR products they want so even if poisoning the well was real you can't do anything about it.
