During my career, I went through this experience several times. I started admiring someone professionally due to the impact of the work that person delivers. Some time later, I no longer can follow that person. Although I try my best to judge art rather than the artist, one's statements become unbearable and I find myself disagreeing all the time with them, hence wasting my time. Today, that happened again. Kill your heroes, they say. Unfortunately, AI speed up and amplifies that too.