Codesmith cohort - one year later

Only people who drink the kool-aid feel that way from what I see, the vast majority of people outside of the Codesmith bubble think I'm balanced and reasonable and I tell many of them to go to Codesmith if it's the right thing for them. I help a number of Codesmith grads (at Formation and not at Formation) think of ideas and things to do who are stuck. So I imagine that my view is skewed more for people on the struggling side who don't drink the kool-aid. But like I said, many of the bootcamp leaders (current and former) talk with me anyone from once in a blue moon to regularly, except for Codesmith - they instead just call me a troll to their staff instead of acknowledging the truth in the things I say and making changes. With so much churn in staff, some of those people who are not so bought in are going to start talking to me (when they see me challenged by people who drink the kool-aid) and maybe I have a super skewed one-sided view of all the internal problems etc... I get a number of messages that are 'I just left Codesmith and I've been dying to reach out because the way they talk about you is delusional and I don't think the leaders have any idea what's going on' - if you got a number of those messages (all similar with that framing), wouldn't that just raise more questions and flags, or would you call that totally normal. I've asked people about why and they think it's because they aren't open minded to people challenging them - like if they genuinely think OSPs are "worth 4 months of work experience credit" for a 3 week project, we are never going to agree on that and I don't think we'll agree to disagree.