Ah yes,, watching children running through the colored gravel in their little bare feet.
Yes, that’s why people want lawns: a safe place for their children to play. There’s nothing fun about picking embedded gravel out of a crying child’s knees and hands.
Too many fire ants in Texas to go running through the grass in your little bare feet.
In Australia the front yards were gravel, the back yards were concrete. My son in law loves it.
When they lived in the Midwestern US he had a 4 acre yard and spent the whole weekend mowing it. Grass is way overrated.