Perhaps.
Or maybe most people still have just enough wisdom to understand that the fundamental questions of existence are supremely important, and that these questions—indeed, any questions concerning reality—cannot have contradictory answers. A website offering many contradictory answers to life's fundamental questions isn't going to be particularly compelling.
It is reasonable to acknowledge and tolerate the fact that different people espouse different answers to life's questions. It is intellectually dishonest to claim to embrace all conflicting answers. And it is monstrous to call that embrace, "tolerance."
I think you hit it better than me. People would prefer to live in their little secure worlds, thinking their religion provides the only answers. Having someone so blatantly show there are other answers probably made people uncomfortable.