I like Ben. He's got a likeable personality on camera and never takes himself too seriously. While I personally don't learn much from the videos I recognize that they are good for people who are just getting into electronics and hacking. I also have a lot of respect for anyone who can demonstrate skill with not just electronics, but mechanical and industrial design as well.
I agree. I subscribe to the BHS podcast, but I skip almost all the gaming-related episodes (which seems to be the majority), simply because they don't interest me. I download the rest to my phone and watch them at odd times (e.g., in the waiting room at the dentist <g>). I find the episodes I do watch entertaining and often informative. Occasionally one can get some interesting ideas for hacks from the show.
The electronics is obviously not as sophisticated and varied as the EEVBlog, but if you are a relative newb (and definite amateur/hobbiest) like me, watching just about any competent EE or hacker doing anything is valuable educationally. In past generations, people learned theory from books, but they got practical and more valuable learning through apprenticeship -- a big part of which was watching the masters work. Today, thanks to YouTube and other internet-based services, one can watch substantially more projects (in both quantity and type) being done by many different "masters" all over the world. There is still no master looking over my shoulder when I try to do it myself--at least not yet; give the internet time <g>--but YouTube, etc., nonetheless allow me to leverage the observational part of apprenticeship by an exponential factor. The BHS is a small part of that.
Even if one does not like the show, the existence of it and many other demonstration/tutorial type presentations is, IMO, a good thing.