He's only hated on by the most hard-line maxis that dream of Bitcoin utopia. I think Peter is a bit more realistic and recognizes that we still live in a mostly fiat world for the time being. He has ongoing concerns like running a football club and a bar now, besides his podcast. Bring extremely idealistic is not an option when you have responsibilities like those.

His podcast is easily the most well produced and prolific in the Bitcoin space. Huge diversity of guests with big names all the time. I don't think it's worth it to shun him because he likes Monero or thinks maybe government could be useful if it could be fixed.