So I may be illegitimately biased in favor of hack the box academy because I have had a very good experience with it and not so much with THM so I’ll try to be fair here.

But why all the hate on HTBA? I mean I don’t really get the criticism here. It produces more skilled hackers than offsec at best (not saying that’s me) and gets you from zero to mid level at worst. It is a well-respected platform and I can’t see how it hasn’t earned that respect.

To me it seems like the respect is well deserved.