I must admit some PAs can be a bit long. Especially flight deck ones. Like when you're trying to serve passengers but the flight deck are describing every park bench you are going to fly over on the way to Destination X, first in English, then in French.
Get's very tedious. I do sometimes think "who cares, it's cloudy anyway, and we're still going to get there whether we know the route or not". But on the other hand it makes up for the lack of moving map which I know a lot of pax miss.
I like to use the pre-recorded ones as much as possible as the automated one is much more discreet and unobtrusive. I'd rather that at 6 am than someone shouting down the PA trying to sell me a cheese and ham melt! It's better for the flight deck too as they don't hear the pre-recorded standard PAs.
However, at my base we score very highly on the quality of PA's when we do customer service surveys and that includes both cabin and flight crew annoucements.
But, one PA you can't help but love is the automated funcard PA.
