I think Button Masher didn't live up to the community's expectations, and it's totally reasonable to believe this.

The biggest flaw of this level is... its image. Being the last event level of the NCS collab, an event that no one could imagine happening before 2.2, quite a good amount of people expected something that could maybe represent the creativity and spirit of Geometry Dash and its community. Once the final product was presented, none of this was seen. Button Masher doesn't represent the active part of the community at all.

The level essentially represents Robtop. Not the community, not the game, just the creator and its product. It feels and looks like a marketing campaign, like it was meant to be seen as a Tiktok video, just to be (mediocrely) impressive enough to tickle the brain of a person who has never heard of Geometry Dash outside of the first few official levels.

Every creator involved in this final megacollab went with what resembles Rob's 2.2 visual style, seen in Dash and in The Tower's platformer levels, with a few changes here and there to give an identity to each part (even though most of the level looks the exact same, so you can't tell who made what). This style choice was not a good idea either, as most of the community (including me) is growing annoyed of the pixel style, since it's being used way too much and effortlessly in levels that genuinely play like shit and have nothing interesting going on.

I think AudieoVisual's and Grax's parts are the only recognizable ones in here, with an honorable mention to Connot's, as they are more coherent to their own creating styles and actually feel different from the rest of the level.

To end the yapping on a bad note, Button Masher feels egoistic and ignorant to what made GD so big in the first place, rather it only depicts what the average non-gd player thinks the game is. The level is decent and the theming is consistent, but the context behind Button Masher makes me dislike it more than the general consensus. It was a terrible way to end such a meaningful event to the history of the game.