Anything that gets disproportionately more hype than almost everything else irritates me. I'm the kind of person who doesn't get influenced by other people's opinions at all. In fact, the first thing I think of when I think of villagers like Marshal, Julian, Merengue, etc. is the immense hype they get, before anything else about said villagers. And it drives me nuts.
But you just contradicted yourself. You say that peoples' opinions don't influence you at all, then go right on to say that they hype drives you nuts. ???
I usually don't look up or read too many opinions because I truly don't care who others think is great for whatever reason and then I just grow to like who I like. The only reason I look them up sometimes is when I cycle to try to find out who wants what villager so I can give them away.
If you don't take hype personally you'll have a lot more fun.