Everyone doing anything has some controversy around them. At some point, we should just stop paying attention to internet dramas and focus on what matters. Like, fast issue trackers or continuous build with a novel feature to ssh into the state, when the build failed (which SourceHut supports: https://man.sr.ht/builds.sr.ht/build-ssh.md)

Gitlab does too, IIRC.

He is opinionated. Scroll through his blog, and I'm sure you'll find something to disagree on:

https://drewdevault.com/

It's fine to be opinionated, but he's also very abrasive and you don't have to go far to find people who have had a bad experience with him at some time or another.

That being said, I haven't seen anything egregious for a couple of years, so maybe he's taken some of the honest feedback to heart.