In all honesty i never really get the overflowing hate for shinji and condemning his actions so much when the scale of things he does isn’t even the greatest in the VN let alone the rest of TM.
On one hand i guess it’s a testament to his success in his role as a hate sponge, but i wonder if it’s because shinji is the closest to what anyone could become compared to the more fantastical antogonist and schemes?