In With The New - Out With The Old

The open space on the bridleway crossing below Lenny Hill has always been a pleasant place to rest for a while. An old bench was replaced three years ago by SWT and was doing quite well although one of their vehicles chipped a bit off the corner and their contractors made quite a mess of the area when doing some grant funded work to bridleways. It's still not fully recovered from this.
Now that bench has been replaced with another new one. The excuse for that would appear to be that funds could be obtained for a "project". The seat is certainly a decent piece of timber and is further decorated with some words scratched around the perimeter seeming to be from a childrens' creative writing effort.

I wonder what happened to the 'old' bench which was still in fairly serviceable condition?
Oh I see...........it's been thrown behind a tree a few yards away.


Why do I think that this is somehow symptomatic of a certain attitude?