Not anymore, no. When I played the game I was like "he's cool", but when I interacted with the fandom more, I started seeing Piers fans demonise Rose to almost cartoonish and infuriating extents and act like Piers is a perfect angel who never did anything wrong. There's been SO MUCH talk about Rose being a bastard who refuses to help Spikemuth even if Rose HAD offered to move Spikemuth's gym to a powerspot so the pokemon can dynamax but it was PIERS who turned that down. And for what? Because he just doesn't want to dynamax? Okay edgelord. Like the whole ordeal comes across like that comic of the guy riding a bike and putting a stick in the wheel.
"Fucking Rose why doesn't he help Spikemuth."
"Here, let's move Spikemuth's gym so you can dynamax and draw more people to watch your matches!"
"Absolutely the fuck not. Fuck off and die."
"..."
"Fucking Rose why doesn't he help Spikemuth."