Not necessarily. Some of the most highly prized views in the San Francisco Bay Area are of the city skyline from afar, the Golden Gate, etc. but I do think you've noticed that, as nature becomes more scarce and as people get more alienated from it in life, it becomes a valued good. That the government should have an armed monopoly in managing that product is insane.
Go down the road aways and take the time to view the Lone Cypress, the most photographed site along the Pacific coast; that silent sentinel evokes the lonely isolation that lurks inside each of us, but no houses are built with a view of its mocking durability.
Maybe it is only after we have become resigned to the mess that people have made of the landscape that we want to capture just a small piece of its remembered or imagined glory for our own, to keep out the despoilers.
Back to San Francisco, maybe the allure lies in the recognition that, when all else fails, that bridge is a way to escape.