When you put a title and/or explanation to an image, it becomes a part of the experience. That's just the way it is. That's why there is usually the artist's statement and description of images in a gallery or museum. Because the words and image become a single experience, they will be critiqued together. When the words don't work, it stands out just the same as a glaring flaw in the image. Unfortunately, the most obvious flaw in an experience dominates the others. In this case, they found the wording part of the experience to be a more dominant issue than the image part.
For the future, either leave the words out or, if you really want to enhance the experience, spend the time on your words that you do on the image.