You know some of these people going "how could they give it a 9 or a 10?" are the same people that attacked and harassed anyone that gave it a score lower than a 9 before it came out lol
Just a thought, maybe some reviewers aren't fans of getting death threats for giving unreleased games a "horrible" 7/10 score, so they just spike the score slightly in order to avoid that.
There are bad reviewers, of course, but honestly, I can't say for sure I would be an impartial reviewer if I knew I could get doxxed and harrased for giving something a 7/10 -- I'd just give it an 8 and be done with it.
Well, it depends since it's a single-player game with no in-game purchases (that I'm aware of) -- so there's no profit motive for them to fix it entirely.
I guess it depends on how many units they think they can sell in the future. With the PS5 and XSX versions coming in 2021, they might fix the game in order to sell the next-gen versions.
They might also conclude that leaving the game broken might hurt their future releases, so they'll probably fix it up enough that people aren't angry anymore.
Witcher 3 had a super long lifetime with two expansions, that'll keep bugfixing going for a few years alongside the DLC.
Studio reputation is a pretty big profit motive. If they fix the game people will be more likely to buy their next title. If they don't...
No Man's Sky completely put in the work to make their game what they originally promised it would be. I don't know if 2077 will go the same way.