Of the dozen or so friends of mine with them, only one really uses the rpi for anything "serious" after having played with it, hit some roadblock and tossed it in the drawer. Many of them have soured on it due to something not working right, spending a lot of time debugging it and being stymied by the fact that the docs need to fix some of the problems weren't open, or simply by the fact that it seems every single one is sold as "desktop class" and it turns out they are worse than 10 year old desktops for even basic things like say... playing youtube videos.
So there is a lot of negativity built up around them by people who got frustrated by the previous versions.
I feel like the negativity is coming mostly out of a very small minority that tend to gather here and to a lesser extent reddit. In other places there's much less of that.