see the thing to me is that i don't think the fact that eleven, twelve, and thirteen all hate ten should be interpreted as like, narrative proof that ten is dumb and cringe and should be disowned as an incarnation of the doctor. i think it makes perfect sense that his own successors would feel that way about him, but like. ten isn't the doctor's equivalent of "your younger self who naruto ran through the hallways in middle school," he's the equivalent of "your younger self who had a psychotic break." and also never really got treated for it, and now the active psychosis has largely gone away but you're still mentally unwell and generally full of self-loathing and suicidal tendencies.
ten embarrasses his successors because he broke. and eleven, twelve, and thirteen are all trying SO HARD to convince themself that they're better now, they would never break down like that, they've moved on, but it's so painfully clear that they are still the same person. they hate ten because they are him and he is them and they hate themself for being weak and vulnerable.
and of course they play it off as a comedic thing, a "haha wasn't i sooo embarrassing and annoying when i was lying about being 900? good thing i'm not like that anymore!" thing. because to acknowledge what ten really was would be to acknowledge that they, the doctor as a whole, are vulnerable. that they can break down completely. and the doctor is not going to do that, because they're stubborn and arrogant and they need people to think they're cool. and there's nothing cool about a manic episode.
it's not that the other nuwho doctors literally unironically are nicer and humbler and better-adjusted than ten. it's that thinking about him (or meeting him) forcibly reminds them that they aren't.
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