Maybe there is too much, but tastes certainly differ on reverb.
Properly done, it is not tiring, and really does make the brain perceive the audio as louder.
It's a razor thin line on music, and if you are going to be a talk station any reverb needs to be another
6-10 db lower than for music, or else it will bother MANY people.
With music, the ear accepts and expects reverb as a result of normal building acoustics, which the brain intreprets
as "that must have been loud as it's filling a large space".
When voices are at normal delivery and cadence, as in news, we come to accept echo and reverb much less easily,
so what is appropriate for a DJ and music is too much for news.
With voices at such a level the ear expects a much sooner smaller and shorter echo return indicating a smaller room.
The news doesn't need to sound as though its's being delivered in a giant hall.
On the other hand,
It didn't bother me back in the old days to hear full 'verb on the 5 minute newsbreak on Rock-n-Roll AMs.
