Anno speaking from personal experience that you cannot shut yourself off from the world with your hobbies is unhealthy and that you need to go out into the world and make connections is NOT the same as saying you need to throw away all your favorite stuff and thst you are a degenerate for liking strike witches (one of his personal favorites)
People who peddle the "Anno hates otaku" narrative by taking out of context snippets because they have an axe to grind against weebs and need to show how "mature" they are because in reality they are emotionally stunted children who are only LARPing as they think adults are supposed to act need their fingers snapped off
