We all have our personal tastes, but if you're passing on Bombay Sapphire in favor of Beefeater, well, I don't think we're going to agree on what, and what is not, a "dreadful gin."
I'll be clear, I'm not talking about base-label Bombay here, Sapphire is something different.
Folks like to expound on Hendricks and how it mixes well with cucumber, but I loathe the flavor of cucumber and, after all, gin is based on juniper and not cucumber, so there you have it.