Love him, not in a romantic way, but in the way that his stupid antics entertain me. We love an overdramatic bitch.

Don't get me wrong, if he were a real person that I was forced to interact with I would hate it, but he's a fake person made of pixels, and I control him. Not sure why everyone on reddit hate him, but then reddit seems to hate any character who doesn't immediately kowtow to the PC. Given the borderline antagonistic characters we have in BG3, I would be more surprised if you told me that reddit liked a companion at this point.