Now it’s expected you regularly spray chemicals on your lawn. Sometimes your neighbor can even use county, state, and city laws to compel you to do it.
So it’s a status symbol. Lots of people do deleterious things to achieve status. I don’t think it’s “weird” but rather maybe a bit dumb
Do you eat non organic cereals of basically any kind? Those are loaded with it too.
I'd very much like to put a border down for a 10' diameter circle out of my front lawn and dump wildflower seeds in there. They e got mixed that kind of come up as each flower's preferred season comes around. I figure if there's a border, that makes it a garden and not weeds even if my neighbors weren't super chill.