I do think so, yes.
And fwiw, I don't see huge amounts of 'venom'. We are discussing the leader of a political party who had responsibilty for signing off on accounts that we now know were being embezzled from. She also attacked anyone asking questions or raising concerns.
Those of us who have spent years being slurred and dismissed and sneered at by this woman and those in her circle also are often angry. I would say often understandably so. We've been called every name under the sun, attacked, smeared, vilified, sacked, shunned and threatened. For many years we were treated as though we were beyond the pale. Why? Because we didn't want men in women's rape centres, prisons, hostels, changing rooms, etc.
And the woman who styled herself as a gracious and stunning progressive turns out to have been covering for an absurd and tawdry programme of theft. Her hubris and arrogance are ridiculous. People get angry at hypocrisy.
Personally, I'm just finding it depressing that the whole history of Scottish politics over the past decade or so comes down to grubby venality. It ought to have been obvious, really - anyone making the vicious attacks that Sturgeon and her cronies made generally is doing so as a defensive measure, and most of the time the reasons are not very special, but common or garden grubbing for power, money, and fame.
Still. It's unedifying, depressing, and grim that our lovely country has been so badly served by these people.