>>3535248They can do whatever the fuck they want and call whoever whatever, but they DO know what they are doing.
Why do you think they went from denying it to accepting it but painting it as "bad"? They ignore Anno's word because they read and know and understand what he said but don't want to accept it. Part of this all of them going "noooH!! We didn't misunderstand Evangelion we are EvAsChOoLaRs!!11"
Their problem is that Anno and Khara through their movies and merch, collabs etc, keep portraying Kaworu as someone good and Shinji is always happy when he's shown with him, so their only choice now is to say he's a groomer and his piano scene is actually rape