I could very well be talking out of my ass here, but I think generally switch-hitters get more praise than say, an equally good hitter from only one side. This is due to a couple of reasons as I see it: 1) it's hard enough to hit major league pitching effectively from one side, so it's doubly as impressive to be able to do it from both, and 2) they always have the platoon advantage, i.e. you can't really bring in a righty/lefty specialist to face them, even though certain switch hitters do have different splits, though if they're good enough those tend to be less significant than a single-sided batter. So in the grand scheme of things, when comparing a switch hitter to their single sided counterparts, all else being equal, the former gets slightly more praise/would be preferred.