Ryanair has a perfect safety record, so why all the memes and hate?

Pilot for competing airline here, I've flown with lots of ryanair guys and they are some of the best pilots out there - they have experience flying into some utter shit hole airports that other airlines don't go in to, so they are well versed in all sorts of operations. They are a big airline and have well and truly gone past their teething issues smaller airlines do. Their training department is probably second to none and have a training culture, not a checking culture. Also with such a big fleet and diverse locale of pilots, standardisation is a must, which can't be said for all airlines with their training departments. Their pilots work harsh rosters with multi sector , super short flights and lightning fast turn arounds, so they are slick with their operations. In terms of their "ryanair landings" it's usually an efficiency thing. Land quick, brake quick, get off at the closest exit to stand and save precious minutes. Boeing 737 FCTM mentions nothing of a "butter smooth landing", in fact, a firm, positive landing...so they aren't doing anything wrong, but efficiency is the name of the game where performance allows. But they have terrible customer service and overwork/underpay their pilots so that's where people like to shit on them. As far as safety and having good pilots, they are out there with the best....from a European perspective, they probably have the best training. Michael O'Leary once said - any publicity is good publicity. People may talk about shitty landings, they can talk about how bad the flight experience was, they can talk about delays, but Atleast they are talking about ryanair - and people don't care about all that, because no matter how much they bitch and moan, they will still pay bottom dollar €50 or less for a cheap ticket. So until people start putting money where their mouths are and flying more expensive airlines, the ryanair marketing tactic is working.