I figure Nazeem hate is, like, 75% meme, honestly. He’s not meant to be likable, but the performative hatred has less to do with that than with the fact that it’s an emergent in-joke/reference. Like all the “arrow in the knee” stuff, or Preston Garvey’s “another settlement needs your help” in Fallout 4, or New Vegas’s “patrolling the Mojave makes you wish for a nuclear winter.”