Matt,
As you probably have observed in your work, the task expands to the time allotted for its completion (Parkinson's Law). What is intuitive and relatively straight forward to you and the blogger (Mr. Suny) does not appear to be commonplace, at least in my 40+ years playing and thinking about golf somewhat seriously. What I found at the Carolina GC on two days in 2010- a course set up well to complement its architecture- was a large exception to the rule, and probably a good reason (attention to important detail) why your club has done so well.
Much more common is the experience of a Saturday round where the once-a-week golfer finds the entries to the greens soaked, the cups cut indiscriminately to the weather conditions, and tees set to speed up play (i.e. 10-20+ yards up), as opposed to providing a challenging yet pleasurable round. Rather than allotting time and qualified staff to setting up the course, a couple low-level maintenance employees are tasked to getting out first thing, often in the dark, sometimes with an A/B/C pin sheet in hand, and told to find flat, less-worn spots to cut cups, and move the tees X steps forward (to similarly somewhat flat, unworn areas), all before the first group reaches the green. The complexity of the task fitting the allotted time, the golfer often gets much less than what he pays for, which, IMO, is reflected in the comparatively difficult economies facing second and third tier clubs.
My thinking of a setup matrix is that it recognizes that the superintendent has limited time and resources, and that comparatively untrained, largely non-golfing staff members do not possess the "necessities" that you and Mr. Suny have in spades. It may be difficult to accomplish in practice, but if the superintendent and other subject experts had developed such a matrix with, say, 10-30 different configurations, it would be relatively easy to print tee and green locations for each option that the less-able staffers could then take to the course with the primary instruction to find mostly flat, unworn spots close to the specific areas thoughtfully chosen for the day. I'd think this would be relatively easy to computerize, maintained, and applied much like weather, irrigation, nutrition, and pesticide information.
Obviously, trying to please everyone everyday is a fool's errand. That is not the objective and mistakes will be made- e.g. a cold front may come through unexpectedly, defeating the purpose of a course setup for a mild south wind; a part of a green or a tee may not be usable due to turf conditions for a period of time; etc. The goal is to provide the best possible experience for the customers given the limitations of scarce resources, and, IMO, a more methodical, consistent approach to course setup provides an opportunity for improvement at relatively little cost.