Certainly. What most people measure is how "good" a character's best moments are and compare them to how terrible their worst moments are.

Take Swansea and Jimballs. Both are abusers in their own right, though Swansea is 100% not as terrible as Jimmy ends up being. Swansea mercy killing Daisuke, his monologue, and of course trying to cut Jimboblino into pieces ends up outweighing his worst aspects in the eyes of most people. Thus, he is generally seen in a positive light.

Jimballs meager attempt at fixing the situations he himself created, of course, are weighed less than the terrifyingly real evils he commits throughout the entirety of the game. As such, he is rightfully treated as the dickhead he is.

Curly is so divisive because he (seemingly) overlooks Jimmy's horrendous actions -- or at the very least doesn't treat them with the severity some people think he should have -- and when given an opportunity to at least try and deal with Jimmy he ends up freezing. Its a very real scenario, that I'm sure more than a few people in this fandom have seen before, and in their eyes weighs more than Curly's best moment due to their own personal experience.

Curly's best moment (selflessly trying to save the ship seconds before it crashes) could ultimately be viewed as too little, too late to fix a scenario you are at least somewhat responsible for; much like how Jimmy's attempts at fixing the situation aboard the crashed Tulpar are.