>>2162187I'm low income af and was unemployed during my hikes, I never slept at fancy private albergues or went for meals at expensive places so I couldn't tell you how people there act towards pilgrims but I can say for sure that random people along the path were always very nice towards me. Random people offered me fruit and let me use their phone to make a call, plus many people that work at the state ran albergues, despite it being their job, they genuinely like to interact with pilgrims, share experiences and stories.
Sure if you're an entitled cunt and expect albergues to be a 5 star hotel and have a shitty attitude towards people they will treat you likewise.
And then there's the pilgrim community itself and there you find really welcoming people simply enjoying themselves and having a great time, sure as social media becomes more the center of the attention of everybody people may stick to themselves or their own group more but you still get to hang with people that are there to live the full experience of the camino instead of going to the sterilized version of it.
A little story that represents the camino in a nuttshell, at least for me.
>arrive late at albergue>take a bath and hang my towel to dry>it's a decathlon basic towel so there are others exactly the same>wake up late next morning>towel is gone>"well too bad, it's a 1€ towel who cares">fast forward one or two days>pilgrim that was putting lots of KM a day and is passing through comes to albergue asking if there's someone there missing a towel>the person who took the towel by mistake realized that the owner (me) was ahead and asked that pilgrim to see if he could give it back>got my towel back>"t-thanks" 
