I always find it interesting that people love to complain about other's success, or just like to complain, but never nor try to help or do anything. Same as any other business.
Joe and Ben overcame great odds, great negativity, great racist bias to build up the IFBB, and other businesses, whether it be a magazine empire, a supplement empire and or an equipment empire. At the same time, while they were going up, others were going down for not having the correct sense nor business savvy to read the marketplace.
Hence, no matter what, there are always certain people who won't like someone else for their accomplishments.
But Ben did a lot, in many ways.
Yes, respect is due to someone who just passed away.
And yes, it is the end of the Weider era.