I knew Cody had something in him during Undashing. It's like everyone forgot about that and started hating him once he joined up with the Elite.
People slept on Stardust, too. Yeah he was a jobber but that character was interesting and his performance as that character was great.
The only place I ever see hate/disinterest for him is TSC. It seems like most everywhere else he is at least well-liked, even if he never had the neck beard cred like the Bucks and Omega have. If there's weak link in the Elite, it's definitely Scurll. Cody is a good wrestler and a great promo. Not a lot of guys right now carry themselves like Rhodes does.
Cody gonna have one of the all time great rassler success stories when it's all over. Came to WWE as a son of a legend that everyone had high expectations for, ended up getting jobbed out and burned out on WWE's sports entertainment, then went to the indies to grind for a few years wrestling in high school gyms in front of a few hundred people where he fell in love with professional wrestling again, ended up in Japan where he met a couple of like-minded wrestlers, honed his business skills and now he's changing the landscape of pro wrestling. If AEW is a success, he's probably going to be one of the most powerful figures in wrestling for the next few decades.