Was Minty’s perception by community as bad as Chester says?

So, I finally got to reading Chester’s post about ep100, and it really surprised me when he said that Minty’s reputation in community was largely negative. I always saw Minty as deeply hurt person (even before we got proper backstory of his) whose trauma and insecurities cause him to make stupid and harmful to himself and others decisions, which ik trauma is not an excuse to be an asshole but I genuinely believe it doesn’t make you straight up bad person.