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So many people hate secret rolls. So many people feel like they remove agency from them.
But that's what the dice do. They're agency-revoking machines.
While this is true, there are also aspects of game play that blind rolls would interfere with, such as Heroic Inspiration or the Lucky feat, where you should be able to see what was rolled in order to use them as designed.
Are blind rolls implemented across the board like that very often? There's plenty of rolls that don't affect the game if the players know about them, or would hinder the game like you're saying. Probably for the sake of brevity the OG OP just didn't clarify all the exceptions to the rule. IDK tho maybe there really are pure-secret-roll DMs
You'd generally want blind rolls whenever a player is trying to find something out, like check for traps or see if someone's lying.