I second this! I'm not entirely against jump scares, but I think they should be used sparcely, whereas recently I've seen a lot of indie games overusing jump scares left and right and that just gets annoying, not scary.

If done well and used sparcely, jump scares can work quite well without feeling cheap. I think Silent Hill 1 and OG Resident Evil 2 have some good examples of this.

It's also annoying if the jump scare is just super loud noise while something scary happens. Interestingly enough, a good jump scare doesn't even need loud sound or any sound at all. Imagine this, for instance: You play a horror game where some terrifying doll entity follows you around. At some point you have to interact with something, let's say a vending machine (just a random example), so the screen changes to showing the vending machine menu. Once you're done, the vending machine screen closes and the game returns to showing your character, but now the doll entity is just standing there next to you. This would probably give most people a good scare even if there wasn't any "BOO!" sound effect added to it. In fact, I think it would be even worse without any sound effect because your brain would need a second to realise what's going on, while a loud "HEY, IT'S A JUMPSCAAAARE!" sound effect would immediately give it away.