It did have one huge redeeming factor; it wasn’t Olympic Stadium in Montreal. It was TEN times better than Olympic Stadium. At least it didn’t stink.
Olympic Stadium was a disgrace to baseball and the city of Montreal and an insult to sports fans. It was actually disgusting to be in - filthy and grimy and it smelled of cigarettes and feet. It was (and is) structurally unsound, almost preposterously ugly, dark, and - cosmically ironic given its ridiculous price tag - everything about it was cheap.
I’ve been to a few of the other cited bad stadiums. They’re not even remotely as bad as Olympic Stadium, not even in the same area code. It was an absolute travesty.
It’s tough for me to pick out the best ones because I’ve been to so many very nice stadiums/arenas, but the worst has got to be Quicken Loans Arena fka Gund Arena in Cleveland. The lower bowl seats have terrible sight lines, and the upper deck seats are so high up you could get a nosebleed and you’re better off watching the game on the scoreboard tv screen. It replaced the Richfield Coliseum which as a wonderful place to see a game. Cleveland Stadium had bad sight lines for football and was always cold and wet, but I loved the place because it was there that I fell in love with baseball, even the lousy brand of baseball the Indians played at the time.
I sat in the cheap seats at Staples for a Kings game several years ago, and it was really terrible. Tiny seats, inadequate legroom, and the near corner of the rink was not visible (it disappeared beneath the front of the section, despite its dizzyingly steep slope).
A few months later we sat in similar seats for a Ducks game at the Pond (now known as the Honda Center) in Anaheim - world of difference. It was actually pleasant, despite the fact that we were among the rafters.