Gilgul,
I wouldn’t be offended. A big gadol that I know uses Artscroll to prepare his gemara shiur. The reason why people are against it is that sometimes, people use it as a crutch. People who have the time to learn up a gemara by themselves and instead use an Artscroll are ripping themselves off. Some people will bash it without knowing why. But a yeshiva bochur building his gemara skills should not be spending too much time learning out of an Artscroll. The gemara is written in a very specific way, and if somebody uses an Artscroll before he knows how the gemara is written, it will be much harder for him to pick it up than if he spent the same amount of time (and covered less ground) learning out of a regular gemara.
Hey I just realized, we might be the same person. You might really be Joseph!