When the grass gets tall (in a wet year) the mosquito population spreads disease and misery.
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Don’t forget ticks.
Don’t forget mold.
And my home insurance carrier gets upset if the grass is too high. In the country, ‘lawn’ is simply a pasture mix and full of what city folks call weeds. Let is grow too high, you need a tractor and baler. Once the humidity goes down, that’s a set up for grass fire.
Bad enough the lawn mowers don’t care to work on wet grass.I won’t even discuss trumpet vine.
Yes, consequences of the ultimate totalitarianism. Bureaucrap