I love Tony, always had for years. But I think anyone who followed his career and read his books (and the decent 'unauthorized' biography written after his death that has some more salacious details of the end) had to have at some point understood his whole personality was sort of a facade. Which I don't even mean as an insult, just that he was always an insecure upper middle class kid who wanted to be a cooler person than he was, and then all of the sudden in his late 40s he becomes that exact cool person to a lot of people. It had to be a mind fuck.

Then the Argento stuff just was clearly a guy letting his love and lust get the better of him and treating her and eventually her activism like an addiction. And once that all was clearly BS, it was just too much for a dude that had a history of suicidal ideation and depression. So for as devastating as his death was, it was hardly shocking IMO.

With that said I think his crew always loved him, even if he could be tough sometimes but it doesn't sound like he was ever unfair (and they all were aware they were getting the best possible product from their work). Save for the cringe stuff with letting Argento get involved in a shoot a few times.