Throwing rocks at Lunchbucket was harsh.

Judging a clinical patient and then writing vituperatively about her in a book was unforgiving.

Personal note: I'm about the same age as JBP, and everything useful and helpful in 12 Rules is something I'd learned before I graduated from high school. Except I learned it without the half-baked Jungianism and retrogressive gender ideology.

Like the saying goes, his work is both good and original. The good parts aren't original, and the original parts aren't good. It's like a pint of pure spring water to which a tablespoon of raw sewage has been carefully added. When you object to the sewage, his fans demand to know what you have against water.