Navi? Nah, Tatl’s worse

Recognise these two? They are the N64 Fairy Guides in the Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time and its sequel, Majora’s Mask.
Because Ocarina of Time is the more reknown of the two, that means that more people are aware of and recognise Navi… and the hate of her.

For those of you who don’t know what I mean by this: In both games, You (Link), were accompanied by a Fairy who would allow you to target things like enemies and NPCs. They also provided assistance and helped you forward. Except you didn’t need help and they weren’t always helpful. And then there’s their way of getting your attention. This is what Navi is known for. All the voice acting in both games revolved around laughter and various screams… and Navi’s three words: "Hey!", "Listen!!, "Look!".
At first you think its a neat trick to get your attention, after the second hour: you’d wish she’d shut up, and anything past 3 hours leaves you on the edge of quitting so that you don’t have to "Listen!".

I believe that Tatl is worse.

Tatl doesn’t have any voice acting, she instead has a little bell jingle, which means that you see her more as a machine than a living creature.

And then there’s the advice…

Navi’s advice shows that she is trying, and often provide helpful clues. Tatl’s is vague and often just insulting the player’s intelligence.
An example for Tatl is a puzzle in the Canyon temple, the fourth dungeon: In one room, you have to reflect light onto a big block to make it disappear, as a basic Mirror shield task. Except that, there is no beam of light to reflect. Tatl notices a tunnel in the ceiling with the end blocked and says: "I wondered why there was any light in here. What? You haven’t figured it out yet?!". Seriously, no clue. It took me a long while to figure out that you had to place a bomb on a certain part of the floor in the room above to make the necessary hole. That was after trying everything possible in the first room.
Another one is an monster: There is a monster outside the entrance to Milk road, it is a bird. A big one too, not boss size "big" but fairly large for a bird. If it touches you, it will nick an item of yours, regardless of what it is (Sword, bow, rupee) and you can find it for sale in town that night. This generally means avoiding the bird or killing the bird before it nicks anything to save you from going out of pocket. But, it can take one hell of a beating and still be flying. Tatl’s advice for it revolves around: "Run! You can’t kill it! Just Run!" Wrong! You can kill it, it gives you a lot of rupees (A large orange rupee) for doing so.

And when you consider why they join you:
Navi has been appointed to help you by the village elder and guardian, the great deku tree. Tatl, on the other hand, joins you so that she can be with her younger brother again. Therefore Tatl should be of more assistance because she wants to return to a loved one while Navi is just following the wishes of a character that dies after the first dungeon.

So why is it that Navi is hated more? In either of the two examples given for Tatl, she would have at least handled the situation better