No one is asking him to act like this. Many other greats across many domains manage to not be like this. His performance alone gets him loads of attention, and

No one is asking him to act like this. Many other greats across many domains manage to not be like this. His performance alone gets him loads of attention, and this is all just distractions. And yes, people do drop out. It happens. Magnus is famously a very sore loser, however, so when he suddenly is a Dress Code Liberty Fighter to drop out, it should be called out for the ridiculous ruse it is. That people are actually celebrating it and talking about his principles...how profoundly gullible can people be? The guy has an insane number of fanboys, however. It's absolutely bizarre.