I'm not arguing that he is, so I won't be doing that. I didn't say Brian Cox was a better science communicator, only less of a cringelord.

Unrelated,

Cox is a little more moderate with his religious stuff, and much less outspoken politically but it's not clear to me either of those are necessarily virtuous.

Those things definitely matter to me and to other people. There are ways to broach those subjects that don't paint you in a bad light - for example only when prompted or in the rarest occasion.