Okay if you want to get technical yes some did love the first season. I belive Sepinwall had it as his #1 of that year.. (as evidenced by one of your links).
Though if you wanna get even more technical, let's compare the metacritic scores.
S1: 65
S2:80
S3:98
Those are fukking leaps. And of course everyone was singing s2's praise. It was a flawless and epic season of television. It receive almost quadruple the amount of year end list praise. (8 vs 31)
And actually Mr robot was very polarizing for many in s2. Though oddly enough it got better reviews on the metacritic, but even Esmail himself has mentioned the mixed-negative reaction to season 2 on podcasts on multiple occasions.
This is evident on the lack of year end list love S2 had compared to s1. (5 vs 24)
Did you really use IGN in an argument though breh
That's about as polarizing as you can get. If you look at the scores in another way, the majority are positive, less than half are mixed, and a small minority are negative. I won't argue against the show being better received in following seasons (there's nothing to argue about that) or the following seasons being better, but the first season got its props from some and created a strong response (on both ends of the spectrum) from those who watched. 
