Yes, I understand what you're saying ... but I suppose near-overwhelming approval is eviden(t) ...with those not liking it essentially repeating (their) point over & over....
I am humoured by your declaration that those in opposition to
1 St. Thomas have been particularly repetitious, and perhaps boorish - the last implied but not stated - in light of the overwhelming support for this building. Consider for a moment that this may be the net result of responding to the equally repetitious acclamation on the other side of this fence. Make no mistake, as long as this thread continues, and I am on this website, I will challenge this supposedly overwhelming support, as often as is necessary.
Personally, there is no building on the UT board that I am now more passionately against than
1ST, and for that matter its architect, Robert A. B. Stern. Regardless of whether this opposition to a building that will be here for some time is a minority position of a few on this forum, or it became a minority position of one - namely myself - I would still feel justified in questioning this type of architecture for Toronto. I shall spare you a redux of past arguments, but I can say that after the due diligence of looking at Mr. Stern's work over the years, not just the photos, but firsthand, and having a prior history of reading and writing about him, examining the arc of his career - not in an insular fashion only, but also in relation to others in his profession - I think I can come to this forum with an informed perspective, not just a collection of groundless opinions.
If you've noticed, I have begun to discuss Stern, the man, through the Richard Meier thread in another section. I have also researched the evolution of Stern's
Comcast tower, that at first looked like a departure in design, but that masked another story about what was intended versus what had to be built. I cannot rightfully bring all that detail to this thread, but it is proof that your conclusion that repetition is all you see in the opposition at this point, is at best confined to this thread only, even when it comes to this indivdual. If you are in for the long haul, that expansion of a critical perspective toward Stern will slowly emerge throughout these threads, and I believe that it will come from several people, not just the handful you are getting on this building thus far.