I never meant for this thread to turn into a discussion of how many golf courses we have played. Let me try to make my main point more clearly.
This group as a whole, and many individual participants, are among the most prominent "opinion leaders" on the subject of golf courses and golf course architecture. Ran, Tom Doak and Brad Klein are three of the most influential thinkers on the subject alive today, and there are several others here. Your opinions influence architects, club owners and managers, journalists and the many golfers who view this site. By extension, those opinions also influence the people we discuss golf courses with.
When you have traveled extensively, played many of the great courses, and "seen it all", it is very understandable that you might reserve your highest praise for unique, novel, unusual, quirky, memorable, etc. I have no problem with that. All I ask is that we not forget to appreciate high quality courses that are none of the above. There are many, but the one I am most familiar with is Pinehurst #2. None of the adjectives I mentioned fit #2, but it is still one of the world's great courses.
It seems to me that younger generations these days (most all are younger than me!) are attracted to new, bold, exciting, even outrageous whether in movies, music, entertainment or golf. I hope we will not feed that infatuation by undervaluing the "pure golf" courses.