I see a lot of people going nuts over the last 0.5 stars they have received, especially on RR. It's similar on Amazon where you have frustrated readers shitting on great works because Even the most loyal reader finds it hard to remember that you are just a normal person.
There's a google sheet compiled every month among writers that keeps tab on the top Patreon accounts of RR. Apparently, the 25th of March, based on displayed numbers, Casual Heroing was the 45th top earner in terms of Patreon. However, my ranking reads '1106th place.' This is not to say that since I still make money from my writing and my rating is relatively low, it means that ratings are useless.
I just want to highlight how the category that better correlates with a fiction's earning is 'Popular This Week.' That reflect the revenue distribution much more closely than ratings. Views and followers can be used as a raw measure of success and Patreon earnings predictor, especially when they are blown out of proportion, but they are extremely unreliable as soon as a writer deviate from the standard factors.
There are several levels of criticism in writing. It's hard to deconstruct the good criticism, and sometimes much harder when you want to get something from the bad criticism. One criterion that could help sort out this mess is to feel out your readers. Are they liking it? Well, you can ask them to rate your story and the aggregate should return decent numbers. Even Primal Hunter has an average rating of 4.55, which is quite high, even though it is one of the most criticized stories among the most famous LitRPGs. So, ratings, especially when you aggregate them with followers, can go beyond the vanity metrics they usually are.
Taking in only good stuff and pumping yourself up to unspeakable levels might be toxic on the long term and might hamper your growth. But, especially when starting out, very few writers have the fiber to take the amount of shit that internet will throw at them. People on the web are not held accountable for what they say, meaning that they will spout the meanest things about your content. And the thing is that [I believe that written critics are not a reliable metrics of success. And you should Ignore vanity metrics and focus on what really matters. In fact, I firmly believe that Ratings are Vanity Metrics