basically people who have no shame and will take any amount of lies and missed deadlines in the slim hope that one day OS4 will be a rival to Mac or PC!
OS4 users are a small flock: we hang out at one place (Amigans.net) and pretty much know (of) each other. I have been NG-ized since 2009, so I dare say I know the terrain quite well. That being said, I neither see nor remember anyone there expressing "hope that one day OS4 will be a rival to Mac or PC". That is an AmigaWorld forum myth.
The reason why Hermans is tolerated within the OS4 camp is simple: he controls the OS and apparently is not willing to let go of it, whatever his actual motivations are. You bet that we'd much rather see somebody else at the helm.
I'm not sure how your argument about "the Friedens being worshiped as demigods" fits in the equation. It's a decade-old story, now about as relevant as the claim that "Amiga users hate Atari users".