Ally,
I think you have to differentiate between "eye candy" and "scale"
Yale and BPB are enormous in their scale, thus, I wouldn't consider either course to be littered with "eye candy"
In general, the designs of CBM/SR/CB contained deep formidable bunkers, but, their function was unquestionable, thus, I wouldn't consider their features as "eye candy"
Now, the waterfalls at the Trump courses, no matter how nice they might look, are pure eye candy, serving no function in the play of the course.
Sometimes water features are "eye candy" and other times very functional, and ocassionally both.