I can agree with that spectrum, with exceptions, but it’s still only tangential to how people react to things. Consider how tardigrades and Opisthoteuthis are met with comments celebrating them as delightful, mantis shrimp as spectacular, and spiders and centipedes as needing to be erased from the earth even as photographs.
And for the record, I don’t actually think people would react to sapient scolopendroid aliens quite the way they do to bugs they never learned to like. If they behaved enough like us, it might even end up closer to how people have reacted to different-looking humans they never learned to appreciate. You know.
