sorry for derailing the argument with a response to the topic, i wrote this like 8 hrs ago and forgot to post it.
For the record hate is absolutely too strong of a word for the below words, "not a big fan of" works better for me imo.
Not a big fan of tiny shoot/button switch secrets in huge maps where the sheer surface area of all the walls in the map just make trying to explore every nook and cranny and corner for a switch becomes extremely exhausting, since there isn't any tell, the secret is just something being really small and hard to find. The smaller the swtich/the bigger the map the more my eyebrow raises.
Not a big fan of singular health bonus/armor bonus reward secrets. These can be both given in secrets and nonsecret secrets, and sometimes it is given after a long and arduous secret hunt or after some platforming section or some visual treat. Sometimes it is used for comedic effect, sometimes it is used as a simple communication method from mapper to player that the secret has ended. But if given the option of leaving it in vs. leaving it out, I will always leave it out. The singular bonus always comes off as direct communication with a player from the mapper since it's virtually always useless, and the trope has been established a long time ago as a silly "here is your reward for your exploration". I've gotten over the use of it as a joke a long time ago, and as far as being communication that the secret has ended, I find it a bit harmful to a map's atmosphere, unless the atmosphere is silly/shitposty.