There are more realtors in the US than houses for sale and have been since 2021. It's also not a difficult license to get; not one, not two, but three of my colleagues got their California realtors' licenses within a week of sitting at a console mixing idiots with nothing better to do.

On top of that, California's real estate market is shady AF, with lots of unpermitted bullshit that gets winkwink nudgenudged, lots of kickbacks, lots of unpublished deals, etc. It's scumbags from stem to stern and the fact that every lazy producer on earth can make money by following these dipshits around with a camera crew as if they're Paris Hilton (the realtors pay for this shit, BTW) hasn't improved the outlook.

You will never not encounter huge assholes in the California real estate market. You can be salty about that or you can recognize that they justify their existence by acting as flaks for each other in hopes of being invited to the feeding frenzy. Any dipshit walking in retail is going to be treated as poorly as you were, by every realtor out there, with absolutely no recourse.

The only people I have ever met who are happy or successful in the California real estate market within the past fifteen years are either (A) wealthy AF and able to pay cash (B) acting as their own realtors and snatching distressed properties before anyone else sees them. It's a shitty system and no matter how egalitarian Zillow or Redfin makes it look, it's a lie.