No, I think this time he will gain some respect from people who hate him joining a super team.
This time around, he joined a team that struggle to be in playoffs and with him and Kyrie, people are expecting they will reach to the finals and eventually win the NBA finals since these two are proven capable of doing it, but until now, we cannot be too confident, we need to wait and see him back and evaluate if he still play the same way he played with the Warriors.
We are on the part of assumptions, everything that we see right now is good as viewing but we can't tell the possibilities once the season has come.
When he joined the Warriors, the hype of splash brothers have slowly dropped, now that Durant is out, we might see them doing their old thing which is to shoot 3s consistently and dominate a team and I like that the warriors are undervalued right now, and Durant still has to prove that he can win championship without Curry and Thompson playing beside him.