People didn't pause to think that there was a certain injustice in blaming Michelin, which was celebrating the obvious quality of this idiosyncratic establishment, rather than the narrow-mindedness of any new customers.
Just as there exists a very fine line between brilliance and insanity, there also exists a fine line between passion and many negative traits such as narrow-mindedness, narcissism, fanaticism, delusion, and even paranoia.