“A considerable part of the #space fandom is experiencing a specific kind of grief when the thing you most enjoyed is now associated with other things that are irretrievably dark. We haven’t yet found a civilized way to discuss it, so we’re just distancing ourselves from the thing we enjoyed.”

The grief of a fandom: on Starship, Musk and losing the spark
Why do people defend someone who has done things that are frankly terrible?

SpaceNews (spacenews.com)