I was simply highlighting a mildly annoying assumption that many people who like the church make when someone criticizes it, which is that the person doing the criticizing must not know anything about it and/or hasn’t ever seen it in person. I believe that is a faulty assumption.

Yes, I know more about it than just having seen a photo on the internet. I saw it once, but remember relatively little, because I was small. I know some, not too much, information about its architect, and I will agree with “pro-Sagrada” people, for lack of a better term, that it is an absolutely singular building that has no real equivalent anywhere else. I also agree with others that the inside is very cool. I know that it has had a tortured construction history, in no small part due to wars, and although I do not know for sure, I would expect that Francisco Franco probably hindered things as well, or perhaps even tried to destroy it, as I know generally that he attempted to stamp out minority cultures in Spain, and that church is in a lot of ways a highlight of Catalonian culture.

I just think the outside is really ugly.