My memory is gettin a little hazy, but I seem to recall the WO's were always equal opportunists.
They could equally tell officers and NCO's to get stuffed, with damned near immunity.
Being in the Air Force, I had never dealt with Warrant Officers. I deployed with a Joint Task Force as a Major. The JTF was mostly Army folks. I met a W2 who had his Bachelor's Degree. I asked him why he didn't become an officer. He told me, with a very serious face, that he had never met an officer who wasn't a meat head and he wasn't going to become a meat head.