They are not nearly as annoying as those “practice PAN’s” clogging up 121.5, some other regional habit
and most of the time they are of good use when you can use them to actually try to avoid the turbulence.
But sometimes when you are stuck in the oceanic tracks, can’t go up, can’t go down, can’t go left, can’t go right.... I would love to tell them to shut the ... up.