If it serves a purpose, that's different. I'm bitching about suburban lawns. NPC traps.

I saw a really cool mini park in China that was actually a nicely disguised drain and water recycler for a water treatment plant. It was a little marsh with a raised wooden walkway above it. It didn't stink at all. Tons of wildlife... Dudes with buckets would go there at night to catch bullfrogs, which they sold to restaurants. Anything like that in the west would get accolades and articles and awards, but there it was totally run-of-the-mill.

I think I might try replicating at least the idea someday by connecting an off grid toilet to a little controlled marsh. Grass would be a no-no - a rock wall on two or three sides would look better.