Tom,
You of all people know you can't please everyone! You may or may not remember but at the opening of Stonewall North, we were sitting at the bar and we were talking about new courses and renovations/restorations,... and you said to me, "If I can please 70% of the membership, I have done really well!" I have used that quote for the last 15 years when working with clubs. It is a pretty accurate percentage
You know you are known for building wild greens and not everyone is going to enjoy that especially when green speeds keep getting faster and faster with the new strains of grasses and maintenance practices. Not everyone putts like Ben Crenshaw and if golfers can't get the ball in the hole it will distract them and it can impact their whole perspective of a golf course. I mentioned on another thread that when I played the Red and the Blue with a good friend, he really struggled with the greens on the Blue and it impacted his perception of the golf course. I thought many on the Blue were severe but they were manageable and I enjoyed them. I thought the same when I played Stone Eagle. Apparently much of the membership there thinks the greens are over the top. I didn't find them to be that way (although if you don't have control of your golf ball and end up in the wrong spots on some of those greens you are almost in a hazard). But that is fine and you deal with it. I thought there was a good balance of those that were severe vs ones that were more modestly contoured.
As I alluded to in the other Streamsong thread, the Blue and the Red are very similar in many ways. Maybe it is the greens that most golfers remember that causes them to side with one over the other?