Almost every Touch Bar MBP review has also been excellent. Sales of the Touch Bar MBPs surpassed the sales of almost all other competitors combined, in less than 1 week [0] (annnnd here comes the expected downplaying of why it sold so much, offering every convoluted reason but the possibility that it is actually, in fact, a good product.)
"Pro" users and Apple did not have a "big showdown." It's just an obnoxiously loud minority, with their puerile 4chan'ish dismissals like "Emoji keyboard!!1", who had never even really used a Touch Bar MBP, that were clogging up a few forums. People who barely exhaust even 16 GB in their daily work fake-whining about the inability to upgrade to 32 GB, even though almost no viable competing laptop supported that either at the time.