That's not exactly true.
Show me where "a number of people will write off the show because the person hosting it is Public Enemy Number One in the eyes of some folks" is in any way a false statement.
That's certainly true, but there are quite a few people who won't watch because the host is "the asshole who ruined TPiR forEVER!!1!" That's an unfair shake, and I say that as someone who's not the biggest fan of Mike's changes.
All I'm saying is that in the two threads about Pyramid, on the site in the epicenter of the Mike R. criticism, I saw one person say the show was going to be terrible because of Mike, and outside of that one person I don't really recall seeing one person say that they weren't going to watch because of Mike. I saw more than one person say they were going to give the show a shot. I certainly can't speak for the people who didn't reply in those threads, but I was pleased to see some of those posters who have been hard on Mike (and were, in fact hard on him in those very threads) still say they were going to give it a shot.
The statement can hold true and I agree with it, but I was surprised by the reaction. I think it has been such a long time waiting for a new Pyramid series that people just want to see it make it to air. They could've put Kathy* Griffin as the host and people would still tune in.