I don't think the hatred is as universal as it is for, say, Australis, but it's close enough that it should be discomforting.
What is your response to this? Do you think it's right to continue work on a project that the majority of people dislike for a variety of very legitimate reasons?
Almost certainly yes. How else can you find new, previously unknown products and ideas of value? Don't you ever just brainstorm crazy ideas because you don't know where an idea will take you? You know... think different... here's to the crazy one's.
Didn't sama just publish a blog post about that: http://blog.samaltman.com/stupid-apps-and-changing-the-world
Also, "majority of people" might need to be edited to say "majority of a subset of people who are HN readers/commenters and who are so interested in browsers that they watch nearly 10 minutes of video on the topic."