Well, Stretch was a pretty spectacularly intentional bait, and people are always going to be salty over the tracing scandal, either because they didn't care about the tracing and are buttmad it ended, or who are buttmad that a manga author did such a blatant plagiaristic thing.
I personally like the art style. My own personal art style somehow ended up "manga-ish" (long before I knew what manga was, mind) so I'm always a bit jealous of those who have a more realistic flavor.