Yeah, Bogey. I remember thinking if Ganton had just a couple more fairway bunkers per hole they might have a pretty good course there!
But seriously, that was the first course I can recall playing with that many bunkers yet I would not be willing to see any of them eliminated. I'd always thought the "over-bunkered" and "eye candy" type complaints were pretty universally valid. But for all courses out there that would play pretty much the same (or better?) with 1/3 of their bunkers filled in there stands Ganton which, to my mind, is an exception to "a whole lot of bunkers" being equivalent to "overbunkered".
And honestly, the appearance of the Ganton bunkers is certainly not flashy enough to make the phrase "eye candy" come to mind in any case...