I cannot agree more 
I will never forget seeing Karen Prell give a talk once about puppetry and such, and she got this floppy cloth sock with feathery hair out of a case and stuck her hand inside, and suddenly Red Fraggle was alive and talking to me; it was completely magic.
But yes, marionettes can be super scary. The Bob Baker Marionette Theater is one of the weirdest shows I’ve ever seen. You sit on the floor and marionettes climb in your lap. I kinda loved it but if people are skeeved out by marionettes it’d be horrifying.
