I absolutely hate seeing text with furigana. It really interferes with my ability to read smoothly. It confuses my eyes and makes it difficult to focus on the text, and that's especially true for words that I know, but haven't totally locked down yet and have to think about for a moment.
With kanji and pitch accent, you either know the word or you don't. I feel like, for me, the supposed benefit of furigana is basically non-existent. If I don't know the word, I'm going to have to look it up to check the pitch accent regardless of whether the furigana are provided, so why bother with the furigana in the first place?
Also, in order to read fluently, I have to be able to read kanji confidently without furigana anyway, and having them ever-present in learners' texts totally sabotages practice, because you aren't actually practicing visual recall if you don't have to actually do any recall, because the answer is already given to you.
I feel like I'm in the minority, here.
Oh, also, all those textbooks and learner's texts that go out of their way to include as few kanji as possible, even for words that are almost never written in kana—those can fuck all the way off. Very annoying to read.
by yashen14