Fundamentally, being a "Trotskyist" is about being opposed to "Stalinism" based on a few specific points. But all of that was so long ago (even the fall of the USSR was so long ago) that those are now historical debates instead of contemporary issues with relevance to current politics. You'll find Trotskyist groups with all kinds of different positions on current topics, just like most other tendencies.

A lot of Trotskyists are weirdos and cranks, because you kind of had to be one to be an active communist in the imperial core, that applies to all tendencies.

A lot of Trotskyists orgs have strange or counterproductive organizational habits, because they've been isolated and nearly-irrelevant politically for many decades, the same as the rest of the left. The same reason many became sectarian and dogmatic.

Like every tendancy, there are good orgs that are making real progress on figuring out their shit, and there are bad ones stuck in the various dead ends of their own historical experiences. PSL is formerly trots, most of the criticisms in this thread wouldn't apply to them. RCP(usa) is Maoist and most of these criticisms would apply anyway (just my opinion, no hate to their members). Sparticists used to be the most stereotypical ultra-trots, but they've spent some years making real progress on becoming normal. It depends on the org much more than the tendancy.