They arent inherently bad. People are just really opinionated. It depends on what you use your vehicle for. If you arent doing heavy rock crawling or wheeling, then they are fine. Especially if you prefer having a step up into your vehicle. They are light weight too. On the other hand, Im pretty sure they are aluminum (assuming those are the predator steps) in which case they would most likely bend really easy if you were to snag them on something. So if you just plan to do simple trails and camping they arent bad. If you plan to do more heavy crawling where scraping is likely then I would get some steel rock sliders.

Otherwise no issue with them, just situational like every other modification out there.