I don't like them, but that has to do with a catastrophic first experience.

The first HOA we were under in Australia had a geriatric, incompetent guy who managed to de facto take control of presidency, treasury, and secretary by himself. He basically managed to get two other geriatrics appointed to be treasury and secretary, but they didn't do anything, just let him do all and only signed off his work.

At least he wasn't doing dodgy things with the funds, but over time it became clear that the common areas weren't maintained. Add in his bullying behavior by waging lawfare (filed about a dozen lawsuits and lost all) against anyone who dared not agree with him, and we knew we had to get him out. We had only moved in after he was "in position" for years, and had the energy to take it on once we realized how bad the situation was.

Once he realized the absentee landlords whose proxy votes he had previously been given had been informed by us about the issues and were starting to withdraw their proxies leaving him with less than his previous absolute majority, he then obstructed any votes that could compromise his position from even being tabled. At one stage, we hadn't had a ownership meetings for 18+ months as he was cancelling those with phony reasons to keep us at arm's length.

Despite having clear, well-documented evidence of his misconduct, it took us 2 1/2 years to get rid of him. We had to take it all the way through complaints at the local body corporate boards, two rounds of arbitration (attempted, he never showed), and finally a court order to put the complex under outside management for a period of time.