Dave
I have a good friend from Ireland who plays the 14th at Dornoch (Foxy) as a bear of a par 5. Because he can't carry his drives more than 170 or so, he has to aim far right off the tee, then tack back towards the center, then try to hit the green with his fairway wood, and then (most often) try to pitch up for a shot at "par.". I try to bomb it down the narrow turbo-boost slot to the left. If I succeed, I then face the conundrum of what club to hit and how to hit it, even--particularly--if I am only 130 yards or so from the green. If I don't succeed with my drive I face the same problem, but with a significantly less lofted set of club options. Then I have to think about about my 3rd and 4th shots. It is a par 5 for me, too.
My friend and I would have similar alternative "strategies" in dealing with even "simple" holes such as the 1st at TOC, the 9th at CPC, the 17th at TPC-Sawgrass, etc.
If you do not believe that "beauty is in the eye of the beholder" you are not being observant. There are a lot of coyote ugly women and men out there who have children......
My point, Dave, is that all holes are "strategic" by the GCA conventional wisdom definition, just as all men and women are beautiful. Of course, there are gradations and horses for courses. I am arguing against the Manichean point of view that a course or a hole or a feature is either "strategic" or "beautiful" or "penal" or whatever, or not. Life is not so simple, and golf is even less so.
I think we are in agreement.