Mike, of course. My tendency is to be disappointed in the courses of big name architects, assuming they had the budget and client, etc. to turn out not only their consistently good projects, but perhaps an even better one if its new. My expectations tend to be high.
And, I have been very pleasantly surprised by many courses by lesser known architects, mainly because my expectations were much lower.
It was sort of like that when Star Wars came out. Not being a space movie fan, I expected nothing and was blown away. The sequel disappointed because I was expecting so much, and I never watched another one of the what 8, 9 that eventually came out? In some ways, that is true of various architects, too. For both signature and other gca's sometimes playing one of their courses is great, but I guess playing the second I have pulled back the curtain so to speak, and find them less exciting. As in, "OK, they like to do this a lot."
I guess that's because I don't think there is any one signature feature, be it wide or narrow fw, contoured or subtle greens, large or small greens, lots of sand or little, etc. that is so good, its worth doing almost 18 times on one golf course, much less on multiple courses repeatedly.