I wouldn't say StackOverflow is especially beloved by developers. Coders on X/Twitter used to complain about how much they dislike SO all the time; I see less of those now, probably because they've switched to using ChatGPT. When I've seen blog posts or headlines about them in the past 1-2 years, they're usually about how "StackOverflow is dying."
It's worth keeping in mind that there are a certain kind of people that inhabit twitter and we aren't exactly the appreciative kind, nor are we representative of a presumed developer monolith which doesn't exist.
Obviously tech isn't a monoculture and everyone has their own unique opinions, however...
I think it boils down to more of "Hey, we can criticize StackOverflow since we're on the inside... but if someone attacks from the outside, we have its back."
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1592s82/the_fa...