Yes, both your comments are reasonable. "Polarization" isn't quite accurate when there's a strong negative skew. As with any intellectual/scholar who gets very popular, there are things to admire, appreciate, cringe at, and even disdain.

I do not follow Peterson's work, nor have I read his book(s). I've seen a number of videos (since before his rise to infamy in 2016), and his lectures at U of T. My impressions of him are shallow/not personal, but even still there are certain things that I admire, other things I appreciate, other things I cringe at, and yet other things I disdain. I think it is possible to view people in such variegated ways, especially with respect to their work when you don't know them. The caveat being, you don't know them (don't make a guru out of someone you don't know(