My dislikes are pretty simple. I like wrapped cues but I don't like two different textures under my grip hand so I am usually shooting a wrapless cue, often off the wall.
Something else I consider is the expansion rate of everything I put in a cue. I like silver, I don't like it's high expansion rate and tendency to pop finishes. I don't like organic and nonorganic components together, for the most part I don't use metal or stone or things with similar expansion rates. If I do use these things they will be at the end of the butt, not where they can fight with components with different expansion rates.
Old saying from street car days, "if it don't go, chrome it!" My stuff was designed to go. I painted over the one piece of chrome on my engine! Caused a major stink, the man living at the track saw all of the chevy engine orange on my engine and told everyone it was an experimental engine straight from Chevy!
A good thing we all think differently, keeps the manufacturers and builders in business!
Hu