I haven't kept pace with Dax since he decided that Cuties was the greatest thing since Star Wars and promoted paedophile general - Vito - a cynical and inveterate pervert, who hides his rotten soul behind blacked-out windows where his eyes should be - to lieutenant.
For a man who has built a long-running podcast on the concept of what makes people "a rage," Dax's anger is stage-managed and usually corralled into anecdotal form. He doesn't really cultivate meaningful feuds unless he is pushed. He shouldered Maddox's passive-aggressive edicts in the dying months of The Biggest Problem... with good grace, until things became untenable. When he does go to war, as with the Lolsuit, he puts entertainment at the vanguard of everything that he does. You get Cuckmas Carols or Dax hijacking Maddox's podcast.
Dax's friendships seem to peter-out off camera. People drift out of his orbit. He's a raving contrarian rather than an aggressor. Unless his personality has changed over the past couple of years, he is unlikely to turn up either at your home, or your place of work, screaming incoherently before declaring victory over all that he surveys. He is more likely to torment you using a nearby billboard, because that's funny and Dax generally goes for the funny bone. Ralph always goes for the throat.
If relations between Dax and Ralph are strained, then Dax is managing the situation by minimising the drama. Ralph is the equivalent of Zoe Quinn and every bit as foul. He is a prominent figure within his circle, who holds a ton of dirt on people who let him get too close. He harbours a tendency to fling this shit around indiscriminately, along with clods of his own faecal matter. No point antagonising a man like that. Dax has skeletons - his drug use; possibly some issues surrounding his finances; that whole grey area around Faith and the procurement of a fake ID. It's not worth stirring the pot to see what might float to the surface. Not when Ralph will take himself off the board, one way or another, sooner rather than later, whether that's a return to jail, a serious car accident, or a medical incident.
