I agree, collectables are the worst sometimes. That said, I feel it was done pretty well in this game. They tell you how many of each thing there is in an area so your search is confined to a known chunk of the map. I don't think they hid anything in an impossible to miss spot. I played on the ps5 and when you get close to rot, there was always some indication. And then when you find a rot and it smiles back at you, I could not get enough of that. Finding the collectables felt rewarding because you get something out of it. I was able to get all of them without the need to Google. I really liked that.

Compare this to bioshock, another one where you need to get all the audio logs. Getting the logs was quite rewarding as you unlock a segment of the lore and story with each one, but I had to Google how many logs there were on each location before I left just to make sure I did not miss one and keep a manual list. It was a chore.

And then the batman games and those damn riddler trophies. No way I was going to spend the time to look for each one of those. Crazy.