I've learned that the old saying, form follows function, is no longer the way it is. In modern golf design and const it is, only once the function is 100% guaranteed do we start to think about form.
We now have the most expensive and best functioning (draining) bunker liners of all time, yet we seem to go to greater lengths than ever to make sure not a drop of water ever drains into a bunker. Forget the appearance of the hole in the ground developed by animals getting out of the wind, those animals would never take shelter in the modern golf bunker in the sky.
Building a green, it's all about pinnable space so easy on anything over 2%.
Better make sure those irrigation heads only water that specific grass, so the front corners of the greens need three heads, one for the green, one for the approach, and one for the rough...but add some extra drainage in the approach anyhow in case we start using 3 as if they were one...
Luckily it is getting so out of hand that there are some who are pushing back...but the machine is hard to fight.