Yeah, it's almost comical.
The majority of good prospects don't make it. Therefore, a 'realistic' take on prospects and development will be 'negative' toward most prospects because that's just the way it is. Most players are not tracking well enough to make it, or alternatively even if they are tracking well in their first 1-2 years after being drafted it still has to be remembered that most players 'doing well' still don't make it.
This isn't 'being negative'. Being negative would be saying that every prospect sucks, and I've never seen anyone here do that.
Unfortunately, a lot of people here simply are incapable of forming a negative opinion on a young player, are convinced that every young player putting up good stats at low levels is a future NHLer, and label anyone with an actual grasp on reality a negative pessimist. And of course, as others have mentioned, love jumping to conclusions based on positive results but will scream WAIT AND SEE! at any negative result. And are in a constant state of being fooled that the most recent two draft classes are the BEST DRAFTS EVER! because they simply don't understand the recent draft mirage.
Like, I've been posting here through several administrations and have been consistently called a negative prospect basher, but I actually know that if anything I've historically been too positive about our young players.