I thought the same but I really do understand the "hate" now. In fact, as someone who sees a lot of potential in the tech, there's even more reasons to be upset. "Blockchain" and even "crypto" are terms that became synonymous with opportunistic speculation at best, and scams and frauds at worst.

And honestly, the vast majority of people on the "inside", i.e. those actually working with it, were opportunists as well. Most of them saw the tech narrowly as an unregulated financial instrument.