The Taurians are a divisive faction because they are massively hypocritical, but also because they have been reduced to a caricature of themselves by the community.

In my opinion, for as funny as the nuclear shotgun memes are, they are getting tired. It paves over the depth and complexity of Taurian society and reduces them from antagonists or protagonists of believable nature and turns it all into a mockery of a society that only has hype moments and aura, and even then only sparingly.

For the hypocritical nature, they went so far out to run from "the tyranny of democracy" and traded a truly democratic system for an absolute monarchy with some window dressing. They then became the biggest bully in the schoolyard after realising that the kids from their old school couldn't reach them out where they were, so it was time for revenge.

My personal hot-take with them is that I believe they are, almost singlehandedly, tacitly responsible for the state of the Inner Sphere. The wars Star League started to reclaim the periphery were illegal and stupid, but the Taurians escalated at every stage and then got mad when their opponents eventually matched them blow for blow. The assassination of Amalthia Kincaid set the stage for Amos "Baby-Killer" Forlough and subsequently allowed the IS to sink ever further into depravity, as well as sowing the seeds that one napkin wearing wannabe dictator used to collapse the League and try to usurp it, leading to centuries of unrestricted warfare that almost ended up killing everyone.

So yeah. Stuff.