Mike,
Love that quote. Have said similar, but not quite as pithily.
I do recall a pro who used to say "Never say "easy to maintain" unless you insert the word "Properly." It can change the meaning of the sentence in practical and profound ways."
But, I always ask an owner or superintendent (easier to do now that most work is renovations) what their maintenance budget is before designing bunkers and some other features. At Cowboys, knowing what they were going to charge, I gave little thought to maintenance difficulty around the bunkers. At other courses that were mid priced, I changed my philosophy a little.
Certainly, not considering maintenance in the original design is a problem a professional architect should avoid, but we often didn't back in the go-go days. That said, there are a lot of courses out there where we couldn't have predicted a private club would be a run down muni within a dozen years. The only solution (actually in place from post WWII until the 1980's boom) was to design for the next depression, even if it was (in theory) fifty years away.