My subjective guess is that the problem is starting to spill into adjacent domains, for example I've noticed that most of the decorative hedgerows in shopping

My subjective guess is that the problem is starting to spill into adjacent domains, for example I've noticed that most of the decorative hedgerows in shopping center parking lots are now cut to a height that is consistently above the eye level and in some cases even the roofline of passenger cars. This makes it extremely difficult to safely turn into traffic flows inside the parking lot, unless of course you're in a vehicle that's lifted up above these hedgerows. I wondered how people who inspected the work of the folks who cut these hedgerows didn't notice that it blocks sight lines for everyone who isn't in a pickup truck or large SUV. Then it became obvious, that both the people who do this kind of work as well as the sort of people who inspect it are both very likely themselves to be completely habituated to truck level sight lines and forget what it looks like for passenger cars.