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Deadguy Red:

You'd be on 18 at the beginning of the Red Deck's turn three, at which point it would produce a Ball Lightning and attack you for, say, 11. Even with resistance you'd usually be dead at this point because there was this card Fireblast in the format, and the Red Deck played four copies

A lot of players will argue that Rishadan Port (as played in the aforementioned Fires of Yavimaya deck) is the most reviled single card in the history of Magic, but I think that the height of the Deadguy Red deck in Standard—in particular the Mogg Flunkies decks—marked the low point of skill vs. reward in tournament Magic, simply because of the speed of the cards the Red Deck could play crossed with the sometimes-inconsistency of a card like Mogg Flunkies.

Say your third land was a Wasteland (or you didn't have a third land, which could happen), and the opponent Shocked your Jackal Pup. Not only would you, yourself, take 2, but your Mogg Flunkies would be stuck at home. Basically a Time Walk in favor of the opponent; it was never clear that there was a good reason to subject yourself to this potential draw disadvantage. Some players look down on the skill level of Jund card choices for the same reason, every time they witness an aborted cascade attempt (but the two are not at all similar).

Decklist:
7 Forest
9 Island
3 Reflecting Pool
4 Skyshroud Forest
3 Spike Weaver
3 Spike Feeder
4 Tradewind Rider
4 Wall of Blossoms
3 Awakening
3 Capsize
3 Counterspell
4 Forbid
4 Legacy's Allure
4 Propaganda
3 Whispers of the Muse
Sideboard:
4 Chill
1 Counterspell
2 Silver Wyvern
2 Thalakos Deciever
3 Torture chamber
3 Tranquility

I think the problem isn't so much that Jund is amazing.

In my personal opinion, it is just that anything else that is interesting to play, loses to Jund.

I usually am a concept player, almost theme. I like tribal stuff, or stuff that sits along a mechanic. So I'm not always 'tier 1' focused.

But even when I try to think of things that should fight Jund off. The decks just sound boring to play. There are also decks that people KNOW have a good match up against Jund, but they tend to be equally boring, but those are the ones that manage to make it to the top 8s alongside Jund.