It should not surprise me that so many people despise the show for many obvious reasons. The announcer is utterly annoying, Rick is a complete idiot, they jump to conclusions about everything, they have a billion "theorists" on there with outlandish stupid ideas, they accept "could be" as complete facts, etc. I like the show because I like the discovery of history from the place that has not really been documented. I do hate that it appears that some things are being run purely for television. The one instance that really stands out there is when Gary found the coin with the square hole....and made a comment about it being exotic. The next show he tries to say it was from colonists defacing coins, when there is absolutely ZERO chance that Gary Drayton did not know it was a Chinese coin. ZERO.
I do not believe in any way, shape, or form that there is a significant treasure ever buried there. there is no Ark or crown jewels or Shakespeare manuscripts, etc. I do highly believe that there has been "treasure" there in the past and there has been historical evidence of that being the case. The descendants of people who were searching early have even displayed some pieces that were handed down. Samuel Ball somehow became a fairly wealth man while cabbage farming there. There also has been reports on multiple occasions from all 3 families involved that 3 chests had been found and emptied on the island. Nothing of super importance like the myths surrounding the place, but a treasure one could say. Anything that is going to be found at this point is going to be random pieces of things dropped there and would be best served by doing what Drayton is doing rather than excavating a pipe dream.