I've had a similar experience, but by turning the cameras inwards, on my 8 acre property. I use surveillance to track animal patterns, keep an eye on my chickens, and get notice when someone arrives on the property. I've resisted pointing anything outside of the property, because frankly I don't care.

Another great use case is using BirdnetPi with all of my RTSP streams to identify all of the birds in the area. Ah...middle age.