I was first made aware of Destiny's existence when Leftube started mentioning Faraday Speaks's "My descent into the Alt-Right" video. I watched that video, and Faraday Speaks's conversation with NonCompete after that. The fact that he repeatedly talked about Destiny and Contrapoints in the same breath, saying they're gateways to deradicalization made me curious, so I started watching some of Destiny's videos. Over the past few weeks I've watched a crapton of his videos - heck, I'm watching one right now -, and yeah, he's pretty good. Some of his takes are a bit weird, but he does some good work, and I'll always be favorably inclined towards people who genuinely try to become better. So many people on YouTube don't budge in their views. Or if they do, they do for the wrong reasons. He, on the other hand, constantly changes and improves rather than staying a cowardly fence-sitter who doesn't know what they're talking about. He's the anti-Boogie2988 in that sense lol.
You know that meme about Jordan Peterson where JP fans say "you're quoting him out of context, you have to watch his videos in their entirety"? In Destiny's case, I legitimately, unironically think it applies. If your exposure to Destiny basically stops at the post that got him banned on ERA (which, for the record, I think is a shame; his ban shouldn't have been permanent IMO, but I'll live with it), or some of his content from years ago, I can see why you would think he's kind of a bigot. But you don't have the complete picture. Watch any of his debates with prominent alt-righters, or his various conversations with Contrapoints, and it'll become clear that he holds mostly progressive views, and does a great job at explaining them and deconstructing a ton of alt-right talking points. Are self-interest and "facts over feelings" edginess key to his views and character? Yeah, sure, probably. But that's a tiny drop compared to the good he does. Let's not throw the baby with the bathwater here.
Also, as others have pointed out, he's way better at debating than most left-leaning figures out there. There's a lot to learn from him there. I remember watching Contrapoints's old debate with Sargon of Akkad, and I was honestly shocked at how poor her debating skills were at some point. I mean, she wasn't horrible I guess, but there was one point where I found myself agreeing with Sargon, of all people, because of how poorly she was handling the debate (don't worry, that's the one and only time I found myself agreeing with Sargon, and it lasted about 10 seconds lol; dude's a toxic idiot of the highest order). She is incredibly talented when it comes to making thoroughly-researched videos, but if you're gonna have debates, I haven't seen anyone on the left do as good of as job as Destiny yet. He's always well-prepared, articulate and quick on his feet. You could say his debating skills are... AMAZIN'!