Agree wholeheartedly. As poorly as I have written, none of my examples setup either a sideways shot or a penalty.
Of a round last year with a friend where we both played among our best games of the year, his most memorable shot was a down the grip hooked 4 iron around some old gums, and mine was a 5 iron played from wedge distance to keep it under a solitary low lying branch of another old gum. Now I know I'm not Mr Plant-a-lotta-trees, but those two inventive shots were more memorable and more fun than other shots we played close to the hole from regular positions.
If the new challenge is standing up and hitting it at the green with normal stance and swing, its potential for memorability and enjoyment has possibly just been wiped out for grill room talk, to the extent that it is not a new challenge at all. But that is subjective of me, and fails to acknowledge that your imaginary image of this area is going to be different from the funny looking thing in my head I've come up with. I do however believe that the misshit is not an automatic lesser evil than the poor decision. You play to a point, be it on a daring line, or a safer one. If you misshit the ball, you will fail to go where you intended, and should not be equally endowed for your second shot as a playing partner who executed his desires more correctly.
Maybe what it really is, is that what an American pictures as this exciting recoverable position is what an Aussie like me takes for granted because it is on almost every golf course on almost every hole. Perhaps the standards there are low enough that I am unable to relate to the extent of this unrecoverable zone. What is crucial to me, is that the "challenge" for this wayward player must not present itself as an opportunity that is near to that of the player in position A after a well hit drive to an intended spot. It must have some element of difference that is more than just angles. The more and more I read stuff on here, the more I think American golf not at its best might make me pull my hair out.
Golf is a game to be played, and shots thought out and crafted. The part of your premise that most alarmed me (rightly or wrongly) was thus: If the ball not cutting or hooking, trajectory controlled, run or stop, or view are not obscured or the like, then only one type of full shot is ever required. Stand up normally and swing at it normally. And that, is unquestionably the most boring form of golf on the planet. It requires no thought, and invokes no memories.