Putting others on a pedestal helps no one. In some ways you can think you are honoring them, or glorifying them. This can seem like a good thing, why would you not want to honor and exult someone. In fact putting them on this pedestal removes them from connection. You cannot properly relate to someone set at a remove. You can never get to know them truly as a human, properly digging into the mess of their spirit. In particular it makes it very hard to do work with them as you will never properly counter their ideas, or help them grow.