AG,
I am in the same distance boat as you. Took a while to realize I am a senior golfer, but moving up from 6600-6800 yard tees made golf so much fun again. With average mid irons, I am hitting greens and fringes a lot, which is fun. Not sure why any golfer wouldn't want that for every other golfer.
As to hybrid tees, you didn't ask me, but.....isn't the fact that so many courses are implementing these on their own when the designer left them with 3 or 4 tees all the market research we need to say "golfers want it, let's do it?" Or is that just "pandering" whatever that means (would still like someone to give me their golf design specific definition, thanks in advance)
As a designer/re-designer, I try to just put those multiple tees where they make sense, and I mean on each hole. If you look at the proportion of tee shot distances between, say the A player at 290, and us at 225, each hole ought to play (about) 225/290 or 76%. In design, I typically round to 80% for ease of in my head calcs, but you get the idea. I don't need to hit the same, say, 9 iron into a green as the club champ, but I want to be in the short iron category.
So, instead of mindless 25 yard splits, a 450 hole will go down to 342 for blue tees, etc., obviously, if that tee doesn't fit topography, like sitting in a valley, or puts a full tee shot in a pond, then it moves for the individual good of golfers like you and me.