Ally,
Understood. I did some courses in the beautiful Northwoods of Minnesota. They did surveys on the most popular holes. While on a few that were so naturally beautiful, I declined to add as many sand bunkers as I might have. The surveys showed that the ones with "artfully" arranged bunkers were the most popular. I didn't add many out-of-play bunkers just for looks, but I tried to make sure those I put in were both artful and tended to frame the hole and direct the eye to the green.
I thought that was a pretty good balance of designing visually without going very non-traditional. But like most favored holes, again, the site was beautiful, so I had a lot of help being traditional.