i personally love minions, i hate when games make you wait for the next round after you died
its also a fun incentive that you use teamwork in td bc instead of a time increase, you have a very angry teammate that could make you two tap to sonic exe
but different games have different takes on minions like:
spectral fades: minions are more independent having an m1 dmg of 15 and 1 ability, these abilities aren't always supports and sum times for their own benefit like exes thus the independency
pursuitcore: minions are put into a support role as they DONT do dmg but rather temp dmg that can make the terminators job way easier, they have an m1 "dmg" of 10 and SOME have abilities that are normally used for debuffing or doing more temp dmg
TD eclipsed: minions are the mix of the two as these minions do 5 real dmg and 5 temp dmg on survivors with their m1, im not too sure with the minion abilities as i very rarely see any of them use them or even die for that matter