Shinji may resent them for what they put him through. And Anno certainly does owe Shinji a hug.
A HUG? For all that lil' fella has gone through? That's too small a compensation... really!
I guess if the characters would end up really meeting Anno, Sadamoto and the gang, It would be fun... like to see:
a) Asuka - "Anata baka"? I was the best pilot ALL THE TIME, you creepy pervert! You could make ME a goddess, not baka-Shinji...
b) KENSUKE - (dry endless tears) Waaaaah... I wanted to pilot... you made me enter Shinji-kun's EVA and didn't let me pilot, not even once...
c) TOUJI - and ME? I lost an arm and a leg inside!! And no-one remembered me!
d) Shinji - Mr. Anno, sir... why did I pilot EVA? I don't get it, nobody tells me, Asuka is such a pain in the arse, and Rei, and this, and that (start infinite complains)...
e) Rei - ... ... ...
So, we basically got the gist of how'd the characters react to Hideaki Anno. They would disembowel and kill him, in that order, for all the crap they went through.
Yep. That simple, I guess. If there ain't anything WORSE to do...