I like them, it allows a kind of tracking of the progression (it's like a non numeric % of completion)
Otherwise I only like them when I can use them after beating a game as an indication if i missed something / what I missed (especially for special hidden things)

My plans for the near future:
- Find a way to have a good enough asset loading system
Because I hate waiting. On sponza it's fine but not on bistro (main culprit: PNG decoding)
- Culling (frustrum idk yet, either GPU culling of meshlets using last frame occuluders)
- then Shadows / AO

I have been working on a raytracer
https://github.com/philae-ael/Raytracing

And on a realtime renderer (it's just sponza, no image, it's boring)
Currently my focus is on the realtime renderer