Phil,
Like Tom, I have learned from the Tour Pros I know that they are most comfortable on a hole that bends with the wind. As Jim Colbert said to me once, "I got a left to right hole, I got a left to right wind and I got a left to right slope in the landing area.......Pards, I think I am going to hit a fade!" Philosophically, I believe its better to align all the signals to create a shot and then reward the player who can hit that shot.
I am not as fond of shots with "mixed signals" whereby the player has to guess how much to counteract a lot of different factors. If the counterbalancing factors are all reasonable, that's fine every once in a while, and in fact, when matching a routing to the land and wind, it usually happens by necessity a few times a round. (I guess CC are better routers than I) I don't mind a few, because the wind does change in most locations - prevailing doesn't mean constant!
From time to time, I see posts similar to yours suggesting that we ought to make things tougher for the good player. I still believe the course is better if we reward them, rather than give them puzzles that in essence, equal out players via guess work over controlled skill. Just MHO, but if you polled better players I think they would be pretty consistent on that issue.