Not both; either of those would have been more interesting and less prone to hypocrisy.
Perhaps I am less critical of Paul as much as I am the crude politics of it all--thus critical of Paul by extension.
(Before you think I am directly calling Paul a hypocrite, what I mean is that the toxic flame wars are, by their nature, hypocritical, and it takes care to interact with them without appearing hypocritical yourself--care that I do not think Paul managed.)
Perhaps I am less critical of Paul as much as I am the crude politics of it all--thus critical of Paul by extension.
(Before you think I am directly calling Paul a hypocrite, what I mean is that the toxic flame wars are, by their nature, hypocritical, and it takes care to interact with them without appearing hypocritical yourself--care that I do not think Paul managed.)