I just re-read his DAREDEVIL run in the latest Epic Collection.  After some horrible issues by Marv Wolfman, Shooter's run was like eating steak after a bad hot dog.  His LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES (all THREE stints!) was very good, his AVENGERS Count Nefaria 3-parter with JB was excellent, his issues with Perez were great, other random DC and Marvel comics were good.  It's been a while, but I recall the actual writing of SECRET WARS II was good and it might be remembered quite differently if it had Neal Adams, George Perez, or John Byrne drawing it.

He's not on my top ten writers list, but he's far from the bottom.

The idea of the Korvac Saga, whatever its other merits in terms of the execution, was a dry run for Secret Wars. 

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Yep. He just does the same story over and over. With Korvac, Molecule Man, Beyonder, or whatever. Even Super-Nefaria is just the idea of a villain no one can beat. No interesting twists or anything or the characterization in Dr. Doom that Byrne (and others) wrote.

I understand some people like his writing, but I'm not one of those people.

The solution to the singers becoming more important than the song isn't to remove credits, it's to have a competent editor who is willing/able to prevent that from happening.

It's interesting that Shooter at times floated the idea of eliminating credits, as well as the idea that the costumes/powers were what mattered, rather than the guys wearing those costumes.  Both of those strike me as very "DC" ideas.  Shooter always said that he viewed Marvel's approach as inherently superior, so it's odd he'd be pushing ideas that seem antithetical to the Marvel approach.  

I remember reading an interview with Zeck in which he said Shooter made him do a lot of redrawing on Secret Wars, because his layouts "weren't boring enough." 

Outside of Secret Wars, I really only know him as a writer on Star Brand, which I liked. Secret Wars is obviously a contrived and dopey story, but I was reading it to my (8 year old) son recently and found the (admittedly melodramatic) dialogue to be pretty strongand nicely rhythmic when read aloud. I'd certainly take him over 95% of current mainstream comic writers, though maybe that's not saying much. 

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Though I defended his writing, I will say that the basic "house art style" (with of course exceptions or people trying to be exceptions) of all the various companies he started or helped start (Valiant, Defiant, Broadway, even the New Universe) was/were indeed boring!  The man likes boring!  And, yes, that is very weird for a guy raised on 60's Marvel.

Besides that Avengers run, he wrote my favorite What if?... story (#3) and also a favorite Superboy "Soljer's Private War".