Even if the people working with him enjoy him, he's still a major creep. Look at all the fucked-up shit that DIDN'T make it into The Idol. He's also just a terrible screenwriter.I think all the vitriol Sam gets is unwarranted. All the actors who have worked with him love him. You won't find an article of an actor saying they've had a bad experience with him
And with Sydney she has said multiple times that Sam has never made do a scene that she didn't want to, she even came to his defence after the backlash with The Idol