Yeah, by the end RTD was also getting a ton of grief. And to be fair, a lot of it was deserved. Just like Moffat. The gripes that a lot of people - myself included - about Moffat's writing (more interested in being clever than writing characters, bad at women) have come about with good reason.
Sometimes with Moffat though I have noticed that the viewers tend to make thing more complicated for themselves than anything Moffat had actually written. I remember a lot of hand wringing over the weirdness in the Wedding of River Song for instance about the Churchill being Holy Roman Emperor and pterodactyls flying around and people being confused when the entire plot was that something was supposed to happen, didn't happen, then time got fucked up. That's all there was to it but reading online I saw a lot of people acting like they had to be quantum physicists to figure it out.