Apparently the average golfer has no problem with slow play and only cares about conditioning. Wow, now I know just how big an outlier I am! 
Not necessarily.....
During the prolonged dry spell in England of late I heard member after member tell me how much they were enjoying the course. They couldn't really tell me why because it was always tempered with "of course, it's too dry" but it was clear from the smiles on their faces that they were enjoying their golf on firm and fast conditions far more than they ever did when everything looked to have been prepared for a gardening competition.
I was very heartened by this but equally frustrated. It seemed to me that what people thought they wanted, i.e. a golf course akin to a well tended lawn and what they actually enjoyed i.e. the firm and fast conditions I just referred to, were two very different things. The consumer is still sold on the idea that a good golf course should have lush fairways, with obvious distinctions between cuts of grass. They don't actually enjoy it so much, particularly when their game doesn't allow them to carry the ball any great distance, but they honestly don't know why (or, in part, the idea that green is good is so engrained that they fear speaking out in defence of a more rugged looking affair, fearing on some level that expressing such an opinion would demonstrate some sort of lack of appreciation for the finer things in life).