At least for the most part they don't make a racket all night long every time a rat or cat is walking around.

If you don't like cat's that's because you only ever saw ones that were being abused or poorly kept by their owners. No different with other pets, either, birds and rodents in small cages, it's just wrong.

I was staying at an airbnb where the owner of the dogs there claimed to love them. She had rottweiler <3 fridge magnet. But she never took her two rotties for a walk, ever, hardly ever let them out to run around in the horse yard where they were mostly locked inside with the horse, and on top, another 3 or 4 dogs that never saw sunlight locked in another space near the front gate of the property.

No surprise you didn't like the cats if they had that kind of keepers. Humans react the same way to imprisonment too.