Yes my Niece married a boy who has a PHD in physics from the University of Chicago and also a PHD in Cosmology.
While they do respect Einstein, they think Hawking is just an average physicist.
I have always admired what Hawking was able to do with such a crippled body, but I read something he said that disgusted me.
I didn’t really know much about him, and kind of generally admired him, but when I read that, his views on God, well. It wasn’t just that he didn’t believe in God, it was his contempt for the concept of God.