I suggest he, and other fans are sick of the Bobcat can't be wrong or criticized. I'll accept he is a wizard of a couch. His main flaw is his stubborness in the selection and deployment of players.
Well, lets look at his history, did he ever exhibit this trait in Detroit? Hell yes! Exactly the same issues accroding to the fans.
So why should we cut him slack on this point?
If the emperor has not clothes, he has no clothes.
In appealing to the notion of a larger plan, some of us have been acknowledging that while there are from time to time, (seemingly) peculiar on-ice personnel decisions and game situation strategies, that those realities aren't evidence of an absence of a larger asset management plan. More's the point, pointing out the positive while acknowledging inconsistencies isn't indicative of our cognitive dissonance.
You've said, the Emperor has no clothes? Are you sure you understand what that means? In the unlikely event you don't and I've misunderstood your application, it simply conveys an inability or unwillingness to acknowledge the truth of a situation.
So which truth isn't being acknowledged by the pro-Babcock side? Is it that he's made mistakes? Or that he's prone to a type of mistake? Is it that he's much, much, much less of a coach than the perceived absence of preferred appropriate criticism from the anti-Babcock (albeit pro-TML) side sees to their liking? Is it that the club is miles away from where it could be if Babcock weren't the coach?
I mean you have to have something tangible to base your criticism on other than repeating that the pro-Babcock side won't criticize the coach at all or don't criticize the coach enough or somehow demand that other fans can't criticize the coach, all of which has absolutely no basis in reality.
And if the basis of the anti-Babcock side is something akin to "knowing" that he thinks more of himself than he's entitled to i.e. The Emperor...Well then that's a whole big box of crazy that we need to tape up and leave in the attic.