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Different people do things differently.

As best I can tell, there are some roosters that will be fine no matter how you raise them. There are other roosters that will be okay if you raise them one way and not if you raise them a different way. And there are some that will cause trouble no matter what you do.

Looking at it from the other side, there may be some ways of raising cockerels that help more of them behave acceptably, and other ways that encourage more of the males to behave in ways that cause trouble.

Personally, I treat all chickens as "chickens," regardless of whether they are males or females. I like to eat chicken, so any chicken that causes trouble is first on the list to get eaten. That includes roosters that attack people, but also includes bullies or chronic victims of either sex, some kinds of health problems, escape artists when I lose patience with them, hens that are too old to lay, chickens that are the wrong color/size/shape for a particular breeding project, etc.

Things are obviously more difficult for people who are not willing (or not able) to butcher & eat problem chickens.