I personally fucking love rockets and what he did. But for the past years made me hate the man.
My guess is that most people here are center-right wing, or at least a majority of HN isn't left-leaning.
It's surprising he managed to make even that audience hate him
That you think they are is the propaganda working on you.
I can believe in the profit motive without thinking that we should ignore science.
Even the current administrations project 2025 comes from right wing tech extremists (mixed with christian faschists) that believe that tech CEOs should be feudal kings in a broken up America, I don't think any website is closer to this than hackernews.
I wouldn't call management-bashing leftist, everyone engages in that, even if right-wingers refuse to go further than individual action.