Yes! there was some blog essay back in the day that encapsulated many of these perspectives (can't find it now). I felt like I was crazy at the time, because EVERYONE loved this, but I thought it was just sort of "mid."
A lot of it I think is because the original Blade Runner is just so thin of a text, and because that movie relies so much on a sort of "atmospheric" mood, that the result is that trying to flesh out the world into a 2 hr 44 min (!!) screenplay is stretching the concept past its breaking point.
So the "stitching" used stretch out this concept is a rogues gallery of 2010's tropes:
* The Jared Leto of it all
* Let's bring old and wizened Harrison Ford back to grouse and growl
* Uncanny valley Sean Young
* Action scenes going on way too long
* A Score of Pounding Noise by Hans Zimmer
There could have been a nice, tight 90-minute movie here if they just cut out more of this pseudo-spiritual stuff that doesn't really go anywhere