Seriously?

Not only are snakes fascinating to anyone who has a clue, they are also quite helpful.

After building gardens, we had a minor plague of voles (kind of mouse-like, but eating plants and behaving a bit like moles) eating the plant roots - in the spring, just go touch a plant and it falls over, it's rootball having been eaten back to the size of a tennis ball.

The next summer we started seeing garter snakes, and several years later a milksnake (I live in the Northeastern US). The voles aren't 100% gone, but mush less of a problem.

Watching an ecosystem balance itself is wonderous.