Take it from someone who has been struggling with the reality that some of the most moving pieces of work are written by terrible people for a very long time, and are deeply infested with troubling views of their depravity, it does not in fact get better. That doesn’t mean there aren’t useful things that can be salvaged from the train-wreck of their work, you just have to be careful how invest in your relationship with that work.
Take it from someone who has been struggling with the reality that some of the most moving pieces of work are written by terrible people for a very long time, and are deeply infested with troubling views of their depravity, it does not in fact get better. That doesn’t mean there aren’t useful things that can be salvaged from the train-wreck of their work, you just have to be careful how invest in your relationship with that work.