P Craig,
I agree with you.
I call it the "feminization" of golf, flowers, flower beds, decorative shrubs, bushes and trees.
Years ago, while playing Lehigh, I noticed them everywhere and I mean everywhere.
When I asked the super what Percentage of his budget they occupied, labor, maintainance and expense, I was shocked at how high the number was.
If everyone of them was eradicated, it would have had no impact on the course or the play of the course and it would have allowed that savings to have been applied to more worthwhile projects,