Yeah, Hasbro/WotC-branded D&D is a total trainwreck. Thankfully there are now tons of great clone alternatives, enough to suit almost any edition/style preference combination, so you can easily vote with your dollars. There's absolutely no need to be boxed into WotC's politics when you play. As bad as branded D&D seems, it has done one good thing - helped usher in a golden age of alternative content. If you can live without your books saying "D&D" on the cover, it's actually pretty good times.
So yeah. Just like D&D cofounder Robert Kuntz before him, Frank Mentzer, the author of the D&D Basic Set, or the Red Box as it's known to most tabletop aficionados:
Decided to let his displeasure known at all the fuckery Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast is doing with the franchise in a lengthy Facebook post. He especially took offense at all the character assassination done to the founders such as Gary Gygax and Jeff Perren.
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