I was previously a member at a club that did a significant amount of work in the past decade. Some of the work was good and improved the golf course. But some of it (maybe even much of it) was adding vanity yardage. It was length for the sake of length. As a result, the golf course is now a few yards short of 7,000. But it is also not all that much fun to play.
I am currently a member at a club just down the road that is 6,400 yards from the back tees (par 71). There are people at my former club that look down their nose at my current club. They call it "too short" and "too easy" and claim that you "hit too many wedges."
I find it to simply be a lot of fun. There is certainly a premium on accuracy, but after some recent tree trimming there isn't a spot where you are in the fairway and are blocked out by trees. The greens are much more interesting and there is much more of a premium on controlling your golf ball. I will say that it is much easier to break 80 than my former club, but I wouldn't say it is easy. You can very quickly miss the green and put yourself in a bad spot.
I think the golf course is way more fun. Part of that is because you don't wear out your hybrids on the par 4s, but part of it is also because the holes are simply more interesting.
On Monday, I'm playing at White Bear Yacht Club, another course that is "short." It also might be the most fun course in Minnesota.
Long story short: I'm a fan of the "short" course because I'm a fan of fun.