Calling these complaints snark is giving them way too much credit.
I doubt anyone looked forward to the pizza box monster every year, simply because it only showed up two or three years in the strip, all towards the end; it was just said to have been there before.
Unless you have to. My brother bought a house surrounded by beautiful, large trees that, for various reasons, all were either unsafe or in the way of redoing the septic tank.
Do people usually swear that much at wedding rehearsals?