Used to despise them too, but now my char is more powerful and those poor wretches explode from being looked at mean. First time I ran into a patch of Black Forest after spending way too much time in a swamp I was actually glad to see them.
Now I'm in the plains and when I can I build bases at the edge of Black Forest biomes
to benefit from the interbiome hostilities. Lastly I really appreciate that they keep those
even more annoying skeletons in check in the meadows.