Hello Elfwine,
It's not a question of liking.
Bragg had a positive talent for deliberate insults of fellow officers, even ones with whom he had no quarrel. That was true in the old army as much as the CSA, as evidenced by his attempts to publicly discredit Winfield Scott - his superior officer. Or as one of his CO's once put it: ""My God, Mr. Bragg, you have quarreled with every officer in the army, and now you are quarreling with yourself!"
Other CSA commanders seem not to have had Bragg's talent for alienating virtually all of their commanders: say what you will about (say) Lee or Johnston, their tactical or administrative or strategic deficiencies, they somehow found a way to avoid unduly antagonizing them - and in Johnston's case, they were largely the same officers. Even when he was kicked upstairs to Richmond he found a way to quarrel with virtually every government official he came into contact with, save possibly for Davis and Lee (which undoubtedly owed to Lee's restrained personality, not Bragg's). Officers of the Bragg mold have always been present in the army, and when the army is lucky it's able to ensure that they never have any serious command responsibility. And that's in a professional army. What Bragg had was not a professional army, but a citizen soldier force, mostly volunteers, fighting a civil war. Certainly they required discipline and order as much as any other army, but there are ways to obtain that discipline and order, and those ways will vary with the circumstances.
Bragg was more than a good disciplinarian; he was a sadist. Moreover, he abandoned effective command of his army repeatedly during key engagements due to various sulks and resentments. What abilities he did have lay mostly in logistics and organization, which suggests to me something in the quartermaster general's office. But for God' sake, keep him off the battlefield. Unfortunately, Bragg is one more instance of the CSA failing to find the best places to use what men it did have.
Bragg was a disaster from start to finish. I can't help but feel that some anti-Confederate advocates here have taken up his cause in reaction to Confederate apologists who may think that Bragg was the chief obstacle standing between the CSA and victory in the West. Well: You can quite easily hold that the CSA had bum's chance in the West no matter what, and still think that Bragg had no business - no business whatsoever - commanding any force of consequence.
But blame for that has to land in Jeff Davis's lap.