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Unless I misread, the point isn't leaving bad reviews, it's making fake good reviews for a chain restaurant.
The way it's being done is intended to stymie outsiders from crowding out locals.
Now, I agree that it is going to make competition harder for the non-chain restaurants the fake reviews are supposed to be isolating from tourist and traveller customers. It's still a shitty move that hurts the local businesses. But it isn't the same thing as actively trying to tank them. It's a quibble about wording though, not a disagreement with your actual point.
If someone sees an Angus steakhouse and actually goes in and buys food they must be blind. It's the most obvious looking tourist trap of a chain you can imagine.
It perches itself on corners in busy parts of London next to major tube stations and preys on the dimmest and laziest tourists. It's genuinely worrying so many people fall for it and go in, reviews or not.
Recommending it is more of a joke than a serious attempt to convince anyone it's good.