The collective masses are always a bit arrogant in their praise of existing dogma.
Tesla did some amazing engineering but had some crank beliefs (he thought special and general relativity were nonsense and didn't believe in electrons) and if he was personally unpopular it was probably due more to his seclusion than anything else
Alan Turning was very well respected in his day and prosecuted because he was gay like many men in mid-century Britain.
Galileo antagonized his opponents and got on the wrong side of the Pope. Copernicus avoided persecution without compromising his beliefs
https://www.csmonitor.com/Technology/2013/0219/Copernicus-an...
"B. You will renounce all personal relations with me insofar as they are not completely necessary for social reasons. Specifically, You will forego:
1. my sitting at home with you;
2. my going out or travelling with you.
C. You will obey the following points in your relations with me:
1. you will not expect any intimacy from me, nor will you reproach me in any way;
2. you will stop talking to me if I request it;
3. you will leave my bedroom or study immediately without protest if I request it."
Further:
"Einstein prized his solitude greatly. Another remark shows his difficulty with personal relationships. While he eventually fell in love with his cousin Elsa and finally divorced Mavic to marry her in 1919, that marriage too was troubled. Elsa died in 1936 soon after the couple moved to the U.S. Not long after her death, Einstein would write, “I have gotten used extremely well to life here. I live like a bear in my den…. This bearishness has been further enhanced by the death of my woman comrade, who was better with other people than I am.”[0]
I don't argue that their aren't exceptions, but I believe my point is true in the general sense.
[0]https://www.openculture.com/2013/12/albert-einstein-imposes-...