Is pursuing the perfect yard a very wasteful middle class thing?

Fertilizers, seed, chemicals, soil analysis, weed killers, mowing routines, watering, time investment, etc -- is this a very middle class thing that's also wasteful?

A yard full of grass and native weeds can look 80% as good from the street if all you do is mow it. It's mostly self healing and requires no watering or chemicals...just a cut every week.