Elon Musk
Popularized electric cars, funded the design for re-usable space rockets and gave people on the rural areas aswell as Ukrainian soldiers internet access.
The flood of downvotes now demonstrates how all this is ignored because people hate him nevertheless.
From the cats perspective I think it's quite uncontroversial to say they'd be happier roaming free.
EDIT: I'd really love to hear the argument for why a cat actually prefers to live its enitire life indoors, despite this being something we've only done to them for the past few decades or so.