Saying Ford's worst character trait is ego is like saying Stan's worst character trait is greed.
I swear if people talked about stan the way they do about ford. He would be so hated.
Ford's worst character trait is not having enough screen time.
Screen time stan got, in spades by comparison, to make you feel bad for him or have over the top hero moments to balance out the overall crappy-ness.
I guesse ford just wasn't as funny about it.
I don't dislike stan, I dislike this fucking golden boy treatment he gets.
It's like saying dipper is the only one who's obviously neurodivergent.
Or that fidd is only either sunshine or evil genuis.
It's fucking nauseatingly surface level.
And in the case of ford even the shows creator is like "oh yeah he's just an arrogant prick" agh it's awful
...it also has undercurrents of ablism...
Like... dipper and stan are the "straight men" to their "eccentric twins".
Like "ohhh poor dipper and stan they're so underappreciated.. with all their hero moments, having the majority of the main emotional beats focus on them...ect"