Speaking from personal experience, as I have chatted with Drizzt a lot and made a lot of memes of him for fun, including ones he really liked and used on Twitter and such too, he's a very mature, respectful, chill person imo. He is very patient and has a lot of respect for others but ironically receives very little in return from majority of the community at least.
I've always really enjoyed his analysis, criticisms, theories, thoughts and just attitude/persona even. He's very funny and insightful and definitely someone you could have great personal discussions with as you said, over some cold beer to even. I've seen him have wonderful talks with people on his Discord server and it's very chill there too.
Thanks for providing some respectful positivity towards him and what he said!
:cheers:
I completely agree with those issues about post TS too, there's so much wrong with post TS One Piece and the Will of Denial still echoes rampantly throughout the majority of community, that is more of a crazy cult than a healthy fandom.
Other series are free game to criticise and not enjoy but One Piece? May as well be a death sentence to a lot of the community! Like the meme of Oda saying "Don't speak ill of Zoro", it's more like "Don't speak ill of Oda/One Piece" ironically!