If that's how you feel about the story

but the bolded is some of the most

worthy shyt I've ever read. Yes sometimes things receive more praise/attention/whatever than they deserve....after reaching a certain status nobody wants to go against the grain.
But to say the story doesn't deserve the attention it gets because
you personally don't like it....shyt is ridiculous. If we were in The Booth discussing "C3" by Wayne I could
kinda understand. Cats got wrapped up in the hype. But we're talking about a story written 80+ years ago that still, to this day, influences horror/sci-fi in virtually every medium, by a guy with very few peers in terms of sheer impact and influence in his field. Poe and a couple other guys.
You got a "Carrie" avatar, by his own admission King wouldn't exist as a writer without Lovecraft.
Now, if you want to argue Lovecraft isn't the best writer, again

because you're judging it against damn near a century of horror/sci-fi. Most of which is directly inspired by Lovecraft, so even that is a moot point.
Fred.