There's the rub. We are so accustomed to thinking that anyone who is brilliant--as is Polanski in his field--must of course be brilliant in the whole of their lives.
But that's not the way it works. Someone who has genius in one area may be stupid in another. Polanski is an extraordinary filmaker but he's an idiot to think that even decades later that there wouldn't be outrage that he raped an underage girl. It doesn't matter that that girl is a grown woman who has had the courage to move past what he did to her. It does matter that he committed a crime, and in the end, the piper must be paid.
Absolutely 100% correct. No amount of talent will ever outweigh the act of drugging and raping a 13 yr. old child.