He works as an analyst, so he analyses fighters and their skillsets and gameplans.I have absolutely no hate for Smith.
I don't really understand why he's so unappealing to so many.
Then again, I don't listen to him or any other fighter, and just judge his skills in the cage.
Fans don't like this because he isn't retried yet. So he's still taking (and occasionally losing) fights while being critical of much more successful fighters than him, because it's literally his job to.
Meanwhile, the Sherdoggers that hate this have never taken a fight in their life and are much more critical of elite fighters than Smith is, so it's hard to take people calling him a delusional hypocrite all that seriously.
He does occasionally say some outlandish stuff on his and Bisping's podcast, like Jim Miller would beat Brock Lesnar in MMA. But his analyst stuff that he gets so much hate for isn't anywhere near as bad as people make it out to be.