Babs took a lot of heat in Sochi for his decisions, from the entire country. People said Bouwmeester was done and Kunitz was the Hyman of that tournament. Lo and behold the entire tournament all the guys people said didn't belong there were the ones who stepped up. Sometimes his stubbornness or vision or whatever you want to call it, does pay off.
All coaches are going to have some tendencies that drive you crazy. It's been said many times on here but bears repeating, the people calling Babcock a joke or worst coach would be complaining about any coach. They want someone with a long track record of success who is willing to throw away what makes them successful on a dime, in the name of innovation. If or when we start being more consistent I expect these same people to move the goalposts again, suddenly Babcock isn't good unless we win the cup this year, or the big three all have career years, or some other unlikely metric. It may be as simple as "we're winning sure but player X is still in the lineup so coach is still bad."
There's the same strange malaise in the Raptors online fandom, the team is now a perennial playoff team, trying to figure out how to take it to the next level, after being a straight up joke for 20 years. There's a vocal section of fans who would rather return to joke status if it meant the coach being fired or certain players off the team, or certain players finally getting more playing time. There are probably people here who would burn this team down by firing Babcock if it meant getting Hyman or Bozak out of here.
I can't imagine what a daily hell life must be for sports fans like that, because most years you aren't winning the championship. You have to learn to appreciate the team's good and bad in some balanced way. And no, "balanced" doesn't mean loving everything management and the coach does, it just means getting a grip sometimes on the stuff you are about to write. Most of it is just joking, empty raging. But just know that the few people who are serious with their hot takes like that probably overlap with the people who sent threats to Reimer's wife, or harass Lupul.