I absolutely love Attack on Titan and it's one of the best anime's I have ever seen. Even the clown show ending from the manga has been fixed to an great extent in the anime. The anime has so many excellent moments which are some of the best written scenes in anime.
The fanbase is insufferable though. It's either full of "Eren is literally me" mfs or glazers with no sense of reality and I'm pissed at liking the same thing as them.
Idk about AoT, I bailed after a person got eaten, but can't all anime be described as having an insufferable fan base? I literally don't talk about it IRL. If someone starts the conversation, maybe I'll join in, but only when it comes to mecha. Average people don't give you as much side eye if you're talking giant robots. I won't talk about all the other shows I watch bc they associate that with weirdos. It's true, I am a weirdo, but at least I know when to keep my mouth shut about it.