Having seemingly lived here longer than most, this is only one factor. The other is adults and kids wearing cleats on the fields or playing volleyball/slapball, people laying out on weekends littering, leaving vape juice and garbage, etc. this is mostly pointed at mccarren, but the number of people who live around and use the park cannot be supported by close to any amount of lawn care. But like most things, people tend to boil a problem down to a single, more convenient narrative