I think there are several reasons for this difference:
(1) There is a part of the player base who wants basically for things to go back to normal. Reapers vanquished, civilization saved, Shepard gets the LI and remains untainted by any hard decision they had to make, i.e. finish the mission and go home. There is no such ending, but the nearest you get to it is Destroy, thus this part of the player base tends to end up choosing Destroy, but remains unsatisfied. Meanwhile, those who choose Control or Synthesis don't necessarily want for things to go back to normal and are quite content with the idea of transforming civilization.
(2) Those who are willing and able to suspend their disbelief for the Catalyst's organic/synthetic scenario (in spite of the narrative dissonance that ensues if you make peace on Rannoch, it has to be said) tend to end up choosing Control or Synthesis, since Destroy won't solve the problem. Those who can't or won't tend to end up choosing Destroy, since doing more than necessary appears not justified to them. Those are also more likely to reject the complete ending scenario as bullsh*t.
(3) Willingness to interpret. I don't have any hard data on this, but my impression is that those who are fine with speculating about the outcomes are more likely to choose Synthesis or Control, while those who would like to be told a story rather than taking an active hand in shaping their outcome by interpretation are more likely to choose Destroy. Since the ending caters to the former group more than to the latter, there are more dissatisfied people who choose Destroy. At the same time, those who aren't just fine with speculating and debating "what does X do?" but actively like it are more likely to choose Synthesis or Control because Destroy is too straightforward to invite discussion about what it does.
(4) Morality. People who see the ending as a "choose your atrocity" scenario tend to end up choosing Destroy or Refuse (for no reason I can understand, since Control is ethically much less problematic) but remain unsatisfied since they have no choice but to "tarnish their honor". Meanwhile, those whose ethics can encompass at least one of the choices and those who find "sacrificing their honor" acceptable are more evenly distributed between them, but are less likely to complain.
(5) For those who like Control, Shepard's personal fate is rather interesting, even cool. For those who like Synthesis, it isn't but the future of civilization is even more cool. Destroy lacks either. That's sort of the point of Destroy, actually, but there is no imagery that gives Destroyers an equal kind of satisfaction.
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