You seem to be under the illusion that anything done that offends the P.R. sensibilities of Salt Lake Citydom is meant & solely intended for purposes of bashing anyone (or anything) that happens to have fallen into the historical/generational pathway of that book.
Krakauer can't be faulted that the first three LDS presidents embraced polygamy; and that the first two LDS presidents embraced blood atonement.
My whole point in discussing this with you is to get you to realize that
(1) Even in a family, you can't have the family patriarch embrace a key teaching & pass it down a generation or two, and then suddenly somebody down the generational line slams on the breaks of that teaching...and veers off in another direction. [And just because it's true the new driver is heading in a new direction, you can't fault others who come along & point out the trails of the old pathways are still visible]
And to continue using that analogy, (2) Let's say some great-great grandson of the family patriarch does something very extreme but would still be within the general sanctioned ballpark of what his forefather taught, you can't blame some writer who makes a connection between what the great-great grandson did w/what his forefather taught. It's not bashing to realize that, yes, in our culture, in our families, in our world, there are indeed trickle-down effects.
I mean read the OT prophets where God specifically says he is holding a group accountable for the actions of their grandparents. [Let me know if you need chapter & verse on that]
Eli is a good example. Moses could be one since his entire generation died before being allowed into the promised land. In the BoM the Lamanites are punished to the fourth generation for the sins of Laman and Lemuel.