Honestly it's aesthetically unpleasing but I once lived in similar housing that had more open fenced yards to each other and it takes like one neighbour who sucks ass for it to become unusable. I get where they're coming from here.

Should've just been like a communally owned greenspace honestly, that alleviates a lot of the "my property is my fiefdom" psychopaths

I’m still shocked that Jack The Ripper managed to kill a woman in those backyards without anyone knowing