All down to tastes i guess but his record sales would say otherwise!
Im a fan of both his solo work and that with Genesis.
He got a lot of bad press when he was going through (one of his many!) divorces when it was purported in the press that he filed for divorce via a fax machine. This apparently never actually happened but a lot of people (as they do) believed what they read in the papers! Maybe thats a reason?
his son is a drummer & was in a band with my son; they used to practise in Collins house till he pulled the rug & made the wife sell up. She moved to Canada with her kids.