Why do People Hate on Crossbow Expert?

[Easy_Lee]

Well that explains a lot, if you just outright don't give a crap what the rules say.

Which begs the question as to why you are in this thread at all ever.

If you won't listen to me, perhaps you will listen to the devs. Back on the very first page of this thread, this link was posted:https://thesageadvice.wordpress.com/tag/crossbow/

Jeremy Crawford says the "loaded" bit, as in bonus attack with a loaded crossbow, is flavor text. Mearls believes the text "should" specify a second weapon, implying that it doesn't by RAW. Both suggest that, by the book, firing a single hand crossbow twice, once as an action and once for bonus, is valid.

So the RAW is pretty firmly on my side. Game. Set. Match.