Soundtracks to movies, TV shows, and video games are an extremely popular genre, it's just one that goes unnoticed. Same thing with Classical music - arguably there are many, many people who enjoy listening to Classical music and can't wait to buy the latest album by their favorite orchestra. Just because there aren't billboard signs, music festivals, or Spotify music promotions doesn't mean it's not a genre that's of interest to many people.
Sure, the movie had a lot of problems, but that doesn't mean people aren't interested in the soundtrack. Phantom Menace is awful for many different reasons, but it's one of my favorite movie scores.
Also check the comments on this 90 second snippet of the score, and on the Youtube 'related videos' that have bits of the score extracted from promos, trailers, clips etc: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSN8ndwJPVo
It's just beautiful ambient cyberpunk music, and Clint Mansell and Lorne Balfe are very prominent composers.
And I did find the criticism that the so-called "journalists" are too busy writing click-bait headlines to even rouse themselves to the level of interest in a story like this as small as simply returning an email to be a bit on point. I suspect when historians place a date on the death of investigative journalism, it will be in what is currently our past.