Pound was a thorn in the side of cycling.
And a good thing too. It may be annoying when someone keeps shouting "you can't keep sweeping it under the carpet", but without him, cycling would still be living in cloud cuckoo land.
If all the people who objected to Pound had instead, spent as much energy cleaning up the sport it might not now be teetering on the edge of extinction.
He was equally harsh on other sports, but I don't think anywhere else did he meet the resistance to change from the sport's administration itself. For example, athletics may still have a long way to go, but everyone running athletics wants to catch the drug cheats.
You could never say, (and still can't) that everyone who runs cycling is united in their total opposition to drugs. Some are at best ambivalent. I think it was this apathy that got his goat and made it appear he was in conflict with cycling: He wasn't. However he was venomously opposed to the inertia that exists in the various cycling bodies and teams to really confront the issue.