Clover isn't fun to deal with, it really likes to migrate off the lawn into my flower beds, and hide under plants until it's substantial.

Clover is a great nitrogen fixer.

So if you buy products to remove it but then apply other chemicals to add back nutrients, you're simply making the chemical industry happy.

> “Back in the ‘30s, ‘40s, ‘50s, it was intentionally included in lawn seed mixes,”

wow, things went further than I thought. Not just allow it, but include it.

I don't use any chemicals on my lawn anyway. I just weed out the clover when it grows into my flower beds. My plan is on removing as much lawn as possible.

Apparently the shift happened around mid-century: https://gazette.com/life/clover-lawns-colorado-expert-shares...

I can say that in the early 1960s, the understanding was that dandelions were weeds, clover was just clover. Or maybe that was just the understanding in Ohio. My wife grew up in Pennsylvania and doesn't like clover.

But I should say that my mother-in-law did make dandelion salad now and then, with bacon-and-egg dressing, the bacon cooked but the eggs raw.