Do you think the internet will listen?
No. Most comments I've read are proclaiming the sky is falling which is par for the course. The Internet has been predicting Nintendo's doom since Al Gore invented it.
Here, Wii U's "Espresso" CPU apparently sucks because it doesn't trounce Cell/Xenon. What many of these people wanted (or even audaciously expected) was for Wii U to be so powerful that it could handle anything PS3/360 could through sheer "brute force," optimization be damned.
Truth is though that that quote can be taken in more ways than one.
It isn't much worse? or it's not worse?
Which one did he mean? [/devil's advocate]
I took it to mean that, all things considered, it's about on par at best or slightly worse at worst. Or more aptly, it's better at some things, worse at others so depending on what developers need it to do or use it for would yield different opinions. I think it's a good sign that Wii U launch ports generally run pretty well despite a few hiccups in some of them. If Espresso was so "horrible and slow," these games probably wouldn't be able to run as well as they do, especially for launch titles. Nintendo is still ironing out some of the wrinkles in the OS so given more time and familiarity, things will improve.
From what I've read, the industry is moving in a more GPU centric direction and the Wii U's GPU "Latte" is what really sets it apart from the current generation. It's clocked similarly to PS3's Reality Synthesizer, but we should all ignore that. The RS is clocked higher than the 360's Xenos, but I don't think I've ever read anywhere that RS is the better of the 2.
Anyone expecting a repeat of Wii vs. PS3/360 needs to simmer down. Wii U hardware will undoubtedly get outclassed by Orbis/Durango, but the gap will be much smaller.