Though, Admiral fans are generally ok with Loki. I saw a mountain of cope from Yonkou fans, and now Zoro fans.
Funny thing, almost everyone was fine with Xebec > old gen... but they went crazy when Harald was added to the mix, and Oda made Harald = Xebec. For some reason, Xebec was acceptable, but Harald was not, and so much so that from there I started seeing things like Yonkou > Xebec, things that before Harald would have brought laughter from every direction.
Not from a lot of users, but not that few either.
And then came Loki, who was clearly portrayed as > Harald, and this was even more unforgivable than Harald, it seems lol.
People didn't have these problems at all when they were pushing Saturn > Kaido, though. It seemed as if the fact that they were giants was the problem lol.