Can you elaborate why there's apparently so much hate ?
Basically because of the closed source policy they have, the disastrous handling for the hack of their shop, where a huge number of customers' addresses leaked, for pushing commercial updates for their software faster than bug fixes...
I also have a Nano S that works well, but if I'd ever buy a new HW, I'd choose another company (for these reasons and for experiencing something new too).
I've been aware of the data leak and am glad that I wasn't a customer at that point...
I can understand that not being open source is a big no-go for many people but I still trust my ledger more than any other wallet software or device that I would use otherwise (except maybe an open source hardware wallet where other, tech-savy people, would dig through their code). Hopefully my Ledgers won't break down on me so I don't have to buy another hardware wallet ever.