Sounds like baseless speculation to me. /biased
Well, I didn't watch the show so it may very well be baseless speculation, yuri fans hate the show after all. Thanks for clearing that up.
Well to actually clear it up, I would assume many observant people* rooting for Mr. Love Interest (MIL) despised her. She's set up as being extremely protective of Tamako, which means she's constantly foiling MIL's advances. I've seen fans and bloggers deriding her role in the series because they were rooting for the dude. In this sense, I could even imagine someone at KyoAni saying, "Midori was meant to be disliked [for her role in the romance]."
As far as her actual character, though? She's just a normal girl, plenty of good and bad points. Probably not a fan favorite, but hardly annoying. Definitely not someone I'd ever think was made up to be disliked.
*I specify observant because as canon as Midori's feelings are, the reveal is pretty subtle. I know of more than a few folks who just didn't get it without being told.
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