i used to not really understand why people got upset seeing their favourite characters be criticised (because i love media analysis) but oh my god i get it now. every time there's untagged all might bashing in a fic i get so genuinely upset? like i saw where a fic was heading into bashing territory and audibly went "nooooo" and was grumpy for a solid 5 minutes.
i think its probably because, and im going to be really uncharitable here - all might bashing just doesn't make any sense. like it just doesn't. the vast majority of the things used to call him a bad person are either things all of the characters do or misunderstandings of the text (such as "AM should have warned deku abt afo" (he thought he was dead))
im sorry but i cant view all might bashing as anything other than coming from a place of bad faith. its usually almost always in service of pushing something else, such as dadzawa, and it blatantly ignores every good aspect of all might's character. all might isn't perfect, but that's what makes him so endearing to me - he's not SUPPOSED to be that perfect mentor figure, who passes on his wisdom and dies, he's a complicated mess of an old man and i love him for that
anyway if you're going to do AM bashing despite that for the love of god please tag it so i dont get sad ok? ok