I second that. He's free to criticize Smogon in all its glory. What I don't like is how he attacks people, even If they are genuinely responsible for things hacking, but he has a right to that. Still I also don't like people who threaten him or trash talk. on him even if he hasn't done anything to offend him. I myself don't agree with all of Smogon rules. I personally find paralysis worse than sleep simply because at least sleep lasts three turns, and good sleep moves are rather limited ( Spore ) to Amoonguss, Breloom, and maybe Parasect.
Paralysis, on the other hand, lasts forever, and has 25% chance of shutting a down. I've lost matches because Paralysis happened at the wrong time. Thunder Wave is also incredibly accessible. Sleep at least goes away after after 3 turns max, and GF has nerved Sleep drastically. I'm not particular fond of banning moves and Pokemon like Baton Pass and Zygarde, though that probably stems from me being a cartridge format player primarily and preparing for those "gimmick" strategies is a must, since there are no clauses to defend me from that.
Anyway, its kind of hard to say though. For starters, there's the hardcore fans who are competitive players, who genuinely know Pokemon Games and has a million complaints that they want GF to do but their's not going to address. There's there Genwunners, who care only about Gen 1 and are currently thrilling in Gen 1 pandering. Then there are Casual fans, who want the hardcore stuff but without the competitive aspect, like my brother who wants save files and serious story but doesn't enjoy the completive Scene and accuses me of practing eugenics. Then there's the Go Audience, who were brought in players completely clueless about Pokemon to Pokemon. Heck, my English teacher/yearbook advisor didn't know a clue about Pokemon is now super hardcore Pokemon Go Nerd. Then there's children. Surprisingly, I haven't seen too many children at the events. When I go to participate raid battles, its mostly adolescents/elder people partaking it. There's usually one or two, but they just share a tablet. In fact, most people I see tend to be young adults. So Pokeon's audiences tend to be younger audiences, at least from the western sides.
Overall, I think fanbase gets on pretty well, even if we d have our disputes. We aren't at the level of complete disrespect and vulgar commentary , which happens to be an unfortunate thing for some franchises like Fire Emblem' Reddit pages.