Lewis has had a real knack for picking problematic protagonists in his later career:

* The Tuohy family for Blind Side

* Kahneman and Tversky --- not really problematic as people! but right in the middle of the reproduction crisis in their field

* Brad Katsuyama, yeesh, who is also the reason Lewis was set up to do a hagiography on SBF

* SBF, of course.

I agree with the "man, can Lewis write" sentiment! He can! You know who else can write, extroardinarily effectively? Malcolm Gladwell. Gladwell is less problematic than Lewis (I can't even imagine Gladwell dismissing Michael Oher as suffering from CTE the way Lewis recently did), but it's an article of faith here that Gladwell isn't worth reading, and not so much with Lewis.

So I think your problem with a book like Going Infinite is: SBF is obviously an interesting subject for a book, and, because Lewis was pre-sold on/to him, he had extensive access, and Lewis can definitely write. So if you're the kind of nerd we all are, you're inevitably going to get a bunch of "good stuff" from the book, and you're not so much going to get bogged down in the deeply problematic circumstances of its authorship and intent because you've already got all that context in resident set in your brain, you know SBF is a crook, you don't have to worry that Lewis is trying to paper over that stuff.

But I think when you're considering the book purely on its merits, that context starts to matter just as much as how good the writing is. This book is getting trashed for I think very justifiable reasons.