Just to put a foot in the door here... I was part of the "remove SCal's hit counter" argument here, and advocated very heavily against it, providing several arguments in favour of its removal.
While I can say that there is blind praise being given to Fabsol, this really isn't incredibly common, and it isn't in the majority, either. Yes, if you scroll through this forum, you're gonna see a lot of comments saying how great this mod is to people, and that they like it a lot, but you'll also see complaints and criticisms. A lot of people in the "suggestions" channel on the Calamity Discord have criticisms of certain updates Fabsol has put out, offering differing opinions on how things should be run... And the devs do listen, they add certain things suggested every once in a while, and make changes based on how agreed upon it is by the community. Fabsol isn't being worshipped in the context of this mod blindly by everybody, people are critical of this mod quite often.
Fabsol isn't saying that your argument is invalid due to the fact you're being critical of him. He's directly stating that you haven't backed up your statements with any physical evidence in the things you've presented in order to oppose him. You're using literally only opinions to try and curve his opinion, of course people are going to look down on your argument; it holds no ground due to you trying to argue against evidence with no evidence of your own. He isn't claiming you're invalid due to "if you oppose me you're in the wrong."
I mean, dude, be real. In the middle of this argument, people had criticisms on the life drain cooldown, and Fabsol recently just added to his list of updates...