Not surprised based on my own anecdotal group of gamers - that are 90% physical for big titles - of those of us that bought the original, 3 of us loved the game, one of which was a digital buyer, and the rest all found it a drag or quit it in under 10hours.
This launch, only the other two that liked it bought it, 1 physical, 1 digital and I'm wanting it but have bought nothing on PS5 since the external PS5 Pro drive strategy emerged and set the question in my mind: am I'm done with PlayStation? Between all the anti-selling friction in the industry now -PSN store completely noncurated slop every, high pricing because of the slop, day one DLC carve outs, PC ports, lack of good hardware use - I'm not in any rush to buy any game at full retail price, now especially when it is so hot in the UK and I don't even want to use my PS5 in this weather.
When you factor in that I'm 5-6years older as a parent since I last struggled to complete DS1 in the twilight hours - took me 80hrs IIRC - there are so many forces eating my desire to play that it is no wonder I didn't go to buy the game to depreciate in my collection. Will probably buy discounted at Christmas to play in the cold when I can carve out that time commitment.