What makes a montage BAD?

I'll post a list here of what I think can really kill montages for me

Text - Often the text is way too boring (Times New Roman/Arial etc) or the colours may be too bright. In addition, Spellcheck for spelling mistakes

Long Intros - If the Intro is longer than 30 secs, interest really starts to dip for me

Overused Intros - At the start of many montages, i'm treated to a 20 sec tour around a map/s, I've spent an entire year getting to know. (I don't need a montage to tell me what a map looks like, Thank You!)

Tacky Intros - I feel using the Z8 logo and old commercials really doesn't make your montage better (Using these, I think you lack imagination)

Too many effects - I don't like strobe lights going off in my face, or some other random eye candy from distracting me from the focal point (that is you getting the kills). Same goes for too much flashing in a montage.

Blurring - A bit like effects, Long sections of video, where the video is blurred to the extent you can't see anything is boring imo. (Don't put it in if your not gonna allow anyone to see it)

Rubbish Footage - I like to see more footage that makes me go WOW. Not just some random TD where you repeatedly kill players outside of their respawn. (The 'amazing'ness of clips obviously depends on how often the player watching sees that sort of stuff. Good players tend to see amazing stuff more often, because they do it themselves :/)

Youtube Captions - Don't like them, makes it look sort of unprofessional. (E.g. I forgot to say something, lets put it as a caption!)

Random Fuzziness - Random noise or scrambled footage should be fixed.

What are your views on BAD things in montages, and what do you think of my views?
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