Yes, but your statement "To be fair....players can always play them on PC?" assumes everyone as one. They don't. So, you could just well have said "To be fair....players can always play them on Xbox?". The end result is the same: buy something else where the game you want is.
That’s how it has always been with exclusives. There was always those who couldn’t play the games without an extra investment.
Maybe if fans stopped putting every single exclusive on a pedestal and downplaying multiplats and stating that PC versions don’t matter we wouldn’t be in this position, where a core gamer needs to own 3 consoles and/or a PC to not turn into a salty grumpy whiny person everytime there is talk about an interesting exclusive on ”the wrong” platform.
The publishers listened. This is what we got. Now we have more console exclusives and timed exclusivity deals, just like the fans wanted, and that’s alright because the games come to PC too and then the exclusivity don’t matter, like the fans said.