"'It's like Minecraft without Notch,' one wrote about Cawthon's possible censure. 'It's a huge hole in the community that we can't fill to this day.'" If a bigot leaving a community leaves a hole in that community, that community has some soul-searching to do.
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I would argue for a middle ground; a good product made by an objectionable person doesn't necessarily invalidate the product, but it doesn't necessarily validate the person, either. For products that are the sum total of numerous individuals' work, though, it gets murkier.
It's easy to cast upright devs under the bus for working at EA, or ATVI, or Ubisoft or whatnot. But people outside the industry have a skewed view rooted in confirmation bias about how easy it really is to just uproot your whole life and go indie, or find a "better" employer.
