I experienced an even more extreme version of this with Watchdogs 2. I enjoyed the first game, but the second one had this protracted tutorial. After an hour, I was still having to follow its instructions rather than playing in the open world, so I just stopped for the day, and never had the enthusiasm to pick it up again. In the 5 or 6 years since then, I've never even considered booting up the game again.
Sleeping Dogs almost lost me when I encountered the "you went the wrong way!" failure meme during the tutorial. I played it again sober and am glad I stuck with it because it ended up being one of the best games I've ever played.
It also forever ruined Robert Palmer's "Bad Case of Loving You," since that was the song I chose for the karaoke date you're supposed to ruin by singing it poorly.
