Does Sakura Matou really deserve all the hate? I mean, really?

Does Sakura Matou really deserve all the hate? I mean, really?

yes, the fact that she would take any time away from best girl and get her ufo adaptation before best girl is worthy of hate

She deserves even more hate.
She betrayed her Senpai, she's a worthless piece of shit.

Not all of it because a lot of it is petty and superficial. But some of it is understandable. First off, I think what screwed her a bit was not being endeared to the audience the same way Rin and Saber were.

Next is the fact the protagonist sacrifices the precious ideal for her, this thing the audience had been hit over the head for hours about how dear and wonderful it is and worthy of following even if it leads to a terrible end. This is sacrificed to save a much less than ideal girl. You know all the big deals with Sakura, it doesn't need to be repeated.

But lastly, what I believe really gets people is that the heroine, the love interest, the girl the protagonist sacrificed his cherished ideal to rescue, becomes an antagonist. There are antagonists who are arguably villainous in the story (who Sakura makes short work of), but antipathy toward them is natural. To the audience, Sakura antagonizing her allies comes off as a spit in the face. And her mentality comes off as one of making the world pay for the wrongs done to her and the help she never received. Add to this the other controversies and voila: a tragic heroine is viewed as a despicable one.

I personally don't think she ought to be hated, but she's definitely not easy to swallow. You just can't be too easy or too hard on her, it's not sensible. She's a character you can either accept or not accept.

Oh, what also gets some is the notion that Sakura is not fully responsible for her actions. This really pisses people off by giving them the impression Sakura is this character with no agency, does no good for herself but harm to everyone, a darling angel who dindu nuffin and who's sooo strong in the face of adversary despite things to the contrary, etc. Moderate opinions of Sakura are hard to come by.

>You just can't be too easy or too hard on her, it's not sensible.

I agree with most of what you've said. The hate towards her probably isn't even towards her at this point. What few Sakurafags there are tend to sweep everything you've noted under the rug and portray her as anything but the poor or at least selfish human being that she is. Compound that with their growing bitterness over the years of their girl being disliked and their response being to try and meme up Saber and Rin with blacked and ohohoh posting and I think they've found out that antagonizing the two biggest parts of the Fate fanbase wasn't a good idea. Sakura receives more hate then ever and it will get really bad when the movie releases. I can see countless threads of all the things she does in HF on the horizon some of which you noted.

Honest, informed and unbiased opinions on Sakura that don't simply spout old memes and shit on her? That will never do! This is Sup Forums people.

saberfags need to die

Nothing wrong with Saber user. Even Sakura likes her.

It doesn't really matter since the Heavens Feel ending is the true ending which means Shirou and Sakura are the canon pair of the game