@Nick1866 The moment I started feeling that, I had to take stock of the situation and ask myself: "what the actual f***?"
What's the point of being self-employed if you're still constantly looking over your shoulder at how a shady corporation's algorithm is assessing you? Where's the joy in welcoming people into your home if you're just going to be stressed about how they judge it on a website? This is some seriously dystopian thinking about how we relate to our home lives and the very subtle art of hospitality. It's like the Black Mirror version of the job.
I do still hate the feeling of waiting until the final analysis to know what a cold, unresponsive customer was feeling during all the time I couldn't get a read on them. And in my last years of hosting before the pandemic, I specifically selected guests for the warmth in their communication - after all, their demeanor has a direct impact on the quality of my home life, and I don't want to come home from a hard day in my actual job to feel like I'm trapped in another nightmare.
If you find yourself stressing about your reviews, it's probably time to recalibrate - make some changes to how seriously you take Airbnb's mind-manipulation BS, be open to declining guests you don't click with, and recognize that the one great thing about being self-employed is that you have the freedom to create the job you truly want.
Sometimes you'll still get a critical remark - and maybe it's actually a point worth considering, despite the common belief among hosts that they're all completely perfect and any criticism is totally out of line and should be immediately censored. It need not affect your quality of life, though.
Offering a service to the public as an independent operator is only a good pursuit for you if you're able to accept the judgment and criticism - not always "fair" - that comes with the territory. If you were a novelist, and you found the thought of your prose being torn apart by critics unbearable, you'd probably be well advised not to publish it. Well, renting your home out to strangers on the internet is a lot like publishing your memoir and hawking it on Amazon - it requires just as much thickness of skin as that novelist should have.