One or two pirates with such a dingle-dangle thingie hanging from their hats/heads would have been fine, but they really overdid it and indeed almost every pirate figure from the new sets (including the DS add ons) has one...
Maybe they started from the viewpoint that young kids will be more attracted to the klickies by all these gold/silver-coloured head/hat-hangers.
Generally, to my taste several of the new pirates have too much detail, and their newest ship has too few detail.