You are right, Ripple fans can be very harsh, when called out for worshipping a dangerous centralized shitcoin. It's like a lot of denial is accumulated for Ripple fans because wo wants to support a centralized dangerous shitcoin like Ripple, which is also pushed by fake marketing strategies to take market capitalization away from BTC and ETH.
I would not consider someone who bought Ripple to care at all about the ideas behind Bitcoin or proper cryptocurrencies. Ripple is a dangerous centralized construct, that should never have been allowed to create. The blame is shared by many participants of this industry though. If you see, Coingecko and CMC have had it listed on the same ranking as Bitcoin since it was added. It is an insult to everything that Bitcoin stands for, and any business that participates in this fraud can never say that they support satoshi's vision or ideas behind decentralized blockchains. Money is not everything, you need to have some morals too.
Most of the people who bought XRP don't even understand the idea behind bitcoin, what they seek is just profit and they think Ripple is like the 2nd bitcoin while it's definitely not true.
Alas, the trading volume that ripple has is still high despite the fact that the coin isn't that great in the first place.
Wonder why newbie are so fixated on XRP when they first trying to invest in crypto as well, ridiculous.