My main goal with writing is to immerse, and one way I get immersed as a reader is by details that excite the sensorium. I want to know what things look like, taste like, smell like, feel like, etc. This sounds like a lot, but throwing details into text like flash bombs doesn't take much time and just makes things more exciting for me. For example, while many people write action scenes to be quick, I tend to linger in the reasoning for strategy of both sides and the detail of viscera. When I'm reading action, I want to taste the blood spray, hear the tearing of tissue and cries of agony, feel the pain of a wound or the reverberations of the blade ripping through flesh. So that's how I write. Readers who like short action scenes wouldn't like my books, but if I didn't write this way I wouldn't like my books.
Explicit vs. implicit writing is like any other fine line authors have to tread. No matter what side you're on, you aren't alone in enjoying it and there are plenty of people out there who claim the opposite is better. There will always be readers who understand what you're trying to say if something's implicit, while there are others who won't comprehend even if you spell things out by the letter. I don't worry about them and just write what I love to read because I know I'm not alone regardless. I like my action/gore, environmental, and character detail to be explicit. I like more ambiguous things (like loyalties, secrets, foreshadowing) to be implicit unless logic dictates otherwise.