I think my main point here is that even back when FMA2003 ended, the fans of the anime dwarfed the manga fans. They still do. Building up a bunch of Brotherhood pre-hate for five years because of a tiny fraction of the FMA fandom seems the opposite of justified. Seriously, back when I was cautiously sailing the FMA fandom waters and realizing that my preference for Brotherhood was a criminal offense, if you had tried to explain that manga fans ruined it for me half a decade ago I would have told you to go screw.