Not to be a bitch but sometimes people engage with fiction in the most boring way possible, and nowhere is this clearer than in videogames. Like what you mean you hate a character just because they were kind of abrasive when speaking to the player character? "They were mean to me" and it didn't occur to you to wonder why? Like, what might their attitude toward you reveal about the world? About the social dynamics within it? About their own perspectives and backgrounds and personalities? Does it even occur you to ask? Would you only have liked them if they bowed to your presence and talked about how great you are? Like I'm sorry but you're so boring. How boring fiction would be if it cathered to you
I see this so much in sitcoms as well, when people viscerally hate the "annoying" characters and start projecting real world stuff onto them. They completely ignore the story necessity of it, the fact that the cool "dry humor" protagonist they love so much can only be that way BECAUSE the annoying characters provide the counterweight he works from. Remove them, and you are left with a cool, dull as dirt protagonist who never says anything bc the foil characters aren't there to give him anything to be cool against.
