Was he really that bad?

People are more annoyed that he used his campaigns to frame his presidential campaign rather than work more on preserving the lives of his soldiers.
For his time, he was average, but with enough spunk to bully the US Navy into leasing him the supplies without which he couldn't have invaded the Phillipines.

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Why didn't he run in the end? He was still popular after being sacked meanwhile Truman had approval rating in the 20s

If Truman had let him use nukes it would have been bad for china

MacArthur was one of the longest serving Generals (at that rank) in US history, but his military education stopped at West Point. He never attended the Command and General Staff School or the War College. He had some good staff officers, but in the main he had, as George Marshall said, "a court, not a staff."