I actually like him, too. I wish we saw more of him because in my opinion- nobody is irredeemable, yet Rockstar deliberately only shows bad points of him to make him hatable. It’s almost like hand holding. “You shouldn't like this guy.” I don’t think that’s good writing, as far as villains go, he’s really menacing, but not well written, and I think we need to admit that.
The same way Micah haters have to admit that, canonically, there were times when Arthur ate stew and laughed around a campfire with Micah, and Micah taught Jack something during his 6 months with the gang.
Human beings are complex animals, and so is Micah. We just aren’t SHOWN many good points to him, if any, and I don’t like that about RDR2.