It kind of ruins the point/skill involved in many hole designs. Not sure if you are a golfer, but many holes in older courses were carefully designed with hazard s/locations (bunkers, rough, water etc) at specific distances to penalize poor shots, and to reward accurate approach play with mid/long irons. It completely changes the nature of the course if you can just boom a big drive over everything and not get penalized if its a bit wild, and then flop it on with a short pitching wedge. For example, in my local course (designed in 1894) there is a famous finishing hole that forces you to lay up your drive (e.g. using only a fairway wood) to avoid going into a gully, leaving you with a long 3- iron uphill approach shot. With bigger driving distances they've had to move back the teebox to retain the idea of the hole.