/jp/ - Otaku Culture

hey, I read
>批評家と言われる偉くて頭が良い人達が言うのだから
and my understanding that の is nominalising 言う here as a noun, right?
so the whole sentence is "critics who are referred to as great and intelligent people say accordingly" or "say so", right? and that seems to be what DeepL is saying, too