Rich Goodale,
I think the answer to your question lies in intent.
While greens here can stimp at 7-13, the overwhelming desire or trend is toward 13 with 7 viewed as "something wrong with the greens" syndrome.
The thought of softening greens # 1, # 3, # 6, # 10, # 11, # 12, # 13 and # 15 at NGLA is horrifying, yet other clubs have softened greens with contour and slope, real character, for the sake of speed.
Years ago, Mike Rewinski started a thread, "The need for speed" and the consumption, if not fixation on the ever increasing speeds by memberships.
It's a trend with a terrible outcome, the loss of pronounced character in greens.
Donald Ross and his contemporaries would be horrified.
Ross's comments on pages 46,47 and 48 in "Golf Has Never Failed Me" are interesting.