Mark:
This may be the first time that I disagree with one of your posts. Generally, you are right on line, but not here.
I don't think the majority of golfers want golf courses to become more steril or more like "RTJ" courses. The concept of a "fair" golf course is way overused and I don't think the majority of the golfing public care as much about "fairness" as they do about "fun" or "interest"..
I recently had a group of 28 guys out to Bandon. Only 2 of the 28 (and the 2 includes myself, which I don't proclaim to be even close to a gca expert) had any knowledge of golf course architecture. However, the most often comment was about how much "fun" courses were to play and how interesting shot disparity was. For instance, almost everyone in the group loved shots like the hog's back on #4 (despite many guys hitting right of it and having their ball kick 50 yards to the right) and the approach at #7 at Old Macdonald (despite having balls roll 75 yards down the fairway). Likewise, guys liked difficult short par 4s at Pacific Dunes like #6 and #16, even though they may not be classified as "fair" by the USGA.
Keep the quirk in the golf course and make the best players in the world learn how to navigate around it.