No, Jafo, you're not one of the few. There are thousands of us who can hardly tolerate her. In fact, there's at least one Rachael bashing website that sees lots of activity.
Small doses of her bubbly, 40 going on 14 personality are more than enough. Plus she's changed her cooking approach. I don't mind the 30-minute meal thing so much (although you're right---not everything, indeed, most good things, can't be rushed) as I do her new view of ingredients. More and more she's turning into Sandra Lee, with boxed, canned, and pre-made products as mainstays.
If you want to use boxed chicken stock because it's convenient, that's fine. But don't try and pass it off as being as good as my home-made, cuz it ain't by a longshot.
I was most amused by her last special, in which she showed us how to cook gourmet meals for our pets. Huh? Let's see: We use convenience products, and force everything into 30 minutes because we don't have time for real cooking, but then we can spend all that time cooking for our dogs. Gimme a break!!
And it's not just Rachael. More and more there is less and less worth seeing on the Food Network. Once food stops being the star there is little left.
Have you heard the promo for their newest non-cooking show? Cooking For Real, or some such. The host is introduced as being a real Air Force vet, a real DJ, and a real lover of food. Yeah, right. And this qualifies her for a cooking show how?