I don't like Chomsky in his main area of expertise of Linguistics. My post-grad work was in NLP, embedded within a linguistics department, and requiring a heavy background in formal linguistics. A fair number of faculty, while appreciative of his contributions to the field, held him in low regard because he & some of his main "acolytes" systematically worked to block any researchers in the U.S. working on ideas that ran counter to his own. Meaning more than a generation or more of advancement has stagnated in the US. Advancement in syntactic theory (his main contribution to linguistics) has tended to come from outside the US.
It's possible this has changed somewhat since my formal education, but it was the status quo for quite some time.
It's possible this has changed somewhat since my formal education, but it was the status quo for quite some time.