Yeah, most the of the anti-Ward people don't treat him as a three dimensional person any more than the apologists do. Between the two groups, he just becomes either evil incarnate or a sainted darling, and there's no room to think that he's a deeply damaged, self-absorbed adult, who is capable of great cruelty for little gain, and who has done terrible things, but who is also a very lost person who lacks a sense of self, so he latches on to others in ways that are damaging to himself and potentially to them.

...Well, that's my take on him, anyway. In nutshell.

It's probably the most divisive fandom I've ever been in. Other fandoms have been bad, but AoS is a particular kind of unpleasant, not helped by the fact that it's so tumblr based.