You can argue that applies to a lot of other things. When your as popular as the HST, it’s a lot more easy to notice and make note of your flaws.Doesn't HST also get shit on mainly because of:
1) How bland and repetitive they are compared to most other more distinguished quality anime out there
I personally found One Piece boring and just could never get into it period. As with many others, I dropped Naruto after Pain. And Bleach is pretty mid all around for me
I’ve seen much worse.2) How annoying their wankers and fanbase were in regular debates in the OBD and other boards.
I’ve seen much greater cringe. Helps that a fair amount of Naruto fans today are grown up too, making the cringe still present but nowhere near as frequent.3) How utterly cringe Naruto itself (as both a character and a series) was to begin with.
Okay….And how fun it was to put them all into the Method of Test and watch them get slandered, humiliated, and bodied by better series out there?
There’s all kinds of reason for why their involved in a good 70-80% of threads: just fans making matchups of the favorite characters, the endless fan wars between the 3, haters making the above mentioned spite threads you described, or even people largely indifferent to them but still make matchups including them to get other more obscure series they like to otherwise be talked about by piggybacking on the popularity of the HSTI doubt simply being some of the most mainstream and popular series were the only main reasons.