Why is this pretentious piece of shit on every "best of the year" list?

Why is this pretentious piece of shit on every "best of the year" list?

Damn what an ugly bitch

< muh pop culture
< muh 6 12 trillion
< muh 1960's civil rights
How much you want to bet she crammed immigrants, class, and LGBTQZXLMNOP in there too? They're like fucking clockwork puppets man. Just a fucking list of shit to check off. Like trying a get a high score in a video game.

Probably because it's the kind of "graphic novel" that appeals to critics and the graphic novel in-crowd. Being published by Fantagraphics, the patrician GN publisher, helps too.

It's the use of pink, blue and purple on the cover. SJWs buy anything with those colours, it's a Pavlovian response.

Look closely at the nose young padawan and see the answer

Daughter of professional artists from Chicago, so the odds of jewish and literal commie connections is about 99.9%. She also has the sort of backstory people love: contracted West Nile Virus, became paralyzed in her hand and from the waist down, regained ability to draw, created a cliche comic about social tensions in 60's Chicago.

It is the exact sort of work they would praise and so they do and for no other reason.

I want to make a comic – I mean graphic novel – called Everything is Nazis. It would chronicle the experiences of a non-gender-binary preteen in the 1980s up through zir adulthood in the 21st century, as ze learns that literally everything in life somehow connects to The Holocaust, as seen through the protagonist's love of pop ephemera.
I'll hire retarded kids to draw, paint, and collage the art.

I would legitimately buy that, if it were a well written satire and didn't just fall into Poe's Law

It's also overly wordy. I tried reading through, but some pages read like a bad illustrated novel. Imagine a murder mystery that constantly goes on irrelevant tangents, and you have this book. It just feels like a bunch of separate, but barely cobbled together stories, written according to a checklist that guarantees critical success.
Art is all over the place. Some of it is really good, but then there are just as many lousy drawings, there are also some obviously traced photographs, and the author falls apart when she has to use perspective. Layout is an absolute mess, and it's clear that author has little to no experience with comics.

I've been thinking of story-timing it, but it's 400 pages long.

As said, it could be great satire if done competently. Especially since it is needed at this point. For some reason, art and lefty circles are rarely parodied well if at all. Only semi-decent recent examples of that are probably Portlandia and few episodes of Californication, but none of them are comics.