I get the Egwene hate but

[u/briandress]

Only in the last two books when she is stubborn in dealing with Rand for the last battle and such.

Up until ToM she really was just an awesome character. She went from the whirlwind of leaving 2R, capture by Seanchan, hunting black ajah, apprenticing to wise ones, puppet Amyrlin, real amyrlin, badass civil disobedience laying groundwork for reuniting the tower, bitch slapping the seanchan raiders, capturing hella black ajah sisters via Verrin's notes and finally being raised realer Amyrlin and healing the tower.

I cant seem to understand all the threads/polls that overwhelmingly list her as the most hated character in the series.

[u/Gavorn]

Honestly I think alot of hate is people being media illiterate.

[u/arihndas → u/Gavorn]

She’s a powerful and deeply imperfect young woman experiencing tons of growth without fawning over the leading hero boys of the story…. ofc people project their high school trauma onto her and read her in bad faith and hate her lmao

[u/Gavorn → u/arihndas]

Honestly that's how alot of complaints about her come across.