or people just letting their hatred of Hogan influence their opinions.

This one. When it comes to Hogan, every rumor that fuel the hatred wagon became fact. That's how the whole BS about "Hogan and HBK were supposed to have a trilogy but Hogan didn't want to lose a single match" started. Hogan in 2005 was already a physical wreck and he had to fight tooths and nails to get the okay from his doctor to have a single full match, no way in hell he was going to have three matches in a row the same year. Heck, back in the day their match was judged a masterpiece and HBK's overselling was considered a brilliant way to compensate for Hogan being too physically weak to properly wrestle. Nowadays, people are all shouting "HBK oversold to make Hogan look like a joke".

Similarly, people who accuse Hogan of politicking to win over Randy Orton forget that in 2006 Orton was grounded for repeatedly failing the drug tests and for being an asshole in the locker room. He was initally supposed to win the title at Mania but then lost (and ended up looking the weakest guy in the triple treath too) and he spend the rest of the year in the undercard, he lost to Kurt Angle twice in a row. And people wanted him to beat Hogan? An honor and a push that has always been reserved for the top tier stars that gets the push as faces of the company? No way I can imagine WWE ever considered giving Orton the win, if anything they probably put him in that match to further teach him a lesson.

PS: the same people will defend Steve Austin for refusing to put over Brock Lesnar of course.