I will say I always enjoyed Olympic and the challenge of roping it right inside the high tree line, but then, I am usually a pretty straight driver. I also enjoyed Castle Harbor and Mid Ocean, where the dryness and cross slope made playing to the exact high edge of the fw the ONLY play.
Ralph Plummer seems to have incorporated just one of those per course around DFW. Not sure if it just worked out that way, or he liked that as a once per course tee shot concept, not unlike Dye and his cape holes.
I would fall into the "Its okay once per course (maybe twice, once left, once right) as a change of pace tee shot. And then, only if there was enough roll out room to still hold it in the fw. In general, I don't know why, as Tim N says, anyone would think purposely building a course to kick a tee shot into the rough unless its absolutely perfect is a good idea, design wise. Why design to stop the 0.01% when you are making the rest of us mere mortals so miserable playing out of the rough?
While I think the containment fw that were popular in the 90's perhaps went too far in helping the golfer, I would still generally alter the ground to make the LZ at least neutral to the golfer. I don't think good design purposely funnels balls off the target zones, although it does happen once in a while - Gathering bunkers, reverse slope greens, etc. But, there needs to be a way to actually play around it with a good shot.