There is a difference between hate the performance and hate the character you see on screen. Most complaints I have read regarding the boys firmly falls firmly in the first category.

I think it's pretty clear the girls carry this show. You can leave Wednesday feeling Jenna Ortega is irreplicable in that role, I don't think most of us feel this way about any of the male characters. They didn't elicit strong feelings of hate, validating a performance, they were just less interesting than their female counter parts.