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He's interesting (YMMV and obviously does, but I find him super engaging) and he tries to be open minded when he talks to people. I will never understand why people criticize him saying "oh he never pushes his guests". That's a feature, not a bug. I can't stand interviewers who just badger guests trying to get them to say/not say certain things. Lex has some questions to set up discussions, and then he just tries to listen to people and understand them. He does push back on occasion, but mostly he's trying to see things from his guest's point of view (even when you can tell he doesn't particularly agree with it). That is rare and enjoyable in this day and age.
I more or less agree, but it's one thing to not antagonize your guest, or try to catch them off-guard, and another to add basically nothing and just have them talk their book. I think a great point of comparison is his interview with The Zuck vs the one from Dwarkesh Patel. While they're a bit apart in time, so there were some developments between them, they're both generally very friendly, but Dwarkesh just gets so much more out of Zuck by actually engaging him on the subjects he's talking about.
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