There are definitely alot of tedious trots who give off more a scent of mormonism than working class materialism, for sure. But I think this is a more common perception of Marxists in the West, in general, than many non-trots are willing to admit. Just check the memes about the local maoist confiscating your phone and gutting you for ordering a pizza. Also, I think some of this criticisms of them are superficial because, at the least, I think there are many genuine marxists who are serious about trying to organize the embryo of a future revolutionary party, and because I can forgive them for others interpreting them as preachy, atheistic versions of jehovah's witnesses (I've met marxists of other traditions who equally give off that impression)., because even if it does say something about how they're lacking in the aesthetics department (we do need more trap and drip), it also says something about the general cynicism of a population in a neoliberal world, although at the end of the day the a good deal of the responsability for people's alientation from radical politics is always ours.

You're definitely correct that there are alot of good, very serious, militant trotskyists out there.

In any case, the western left is at such a low level of development by historical standards that wasting our time on debates about, e.g. trotskyism vs maoist are, for practical purposes, like debating how many angels can dance on the hammer and sickle.