Alright, guys, let's get serious here. Someone's gotta make GIFs out of all the facepalming and whatnot in this video. LPA needs your help!
Nothing really, I actually think it's an expertly crafted album with not one minute wasted. It was exactly the kind of follow up needed to Hybrid Theory at the time. It hasn't aged all that well though and I think people don't like all the teenage angst running through it. Thing is a lot of us were teenagers back then, we grew up with the music. Maybe it's like looking back on yourself as a teenager and going "christ was I really like that?".
Yeah, a lot of it is the lyrics. But it's also the unoriginal instrumentation and the idea that it was a forced sort of "replicate HT for maximum effect" vibe that the album permeates. I'm all for teenage angst. NIN has a lot of that at times. Well, maybe just angst in general. But Trent at least has the capability of changing it up and making it interesting. Meteora was literally HT Pt. II, and it clearly suffers from the imitation.
Recharged has 2 good remixes on it, for what it's worth. That album suffered because people expected another Reanimation and we're let down.
I think all that Meteora bashing is also a bit of self-irony. At least for me... I find it kinda funny that Meteora is THE casualty here most of the time.