Normal grass because laying out all the fake grass would be a whole lot of work, wouldn't it? Picking up flowers, maybe chopping some trees. It especially doesn't look good if you have certain pwps up that wouldn't let you add any paths underneath it, so then the illusion is kind of broken.
Normal grass. I wouldn't want to waste a pattern slot for something that's already in the game and changes naturally. You're also limited on not being able to place items on it as well.
Normal grass for sure. I think fake grass can look good in some pictures in some locations, but in practicality, not so much. When there are trees/rocks/buildings/pwp/ponds/rivers/cliffs around, it looks soooo tacky and fake. Some wildflower grasses can look good in plazas when surrounded with paths and not touching real grass, but besides that, please no fake grass.
As for changing seasons though, it wouldn't actually be hard. You don't need to re-lay all of the paths, you can just go to the qr machine or pattern storage and swap the patterns and they will change automatically.
normal tbh. patterns really bother me because they are so square (Duh but i rly dislike it) which makes it look bad around the edges of your town where it's a bit uneven. also it looks weird with pwps, trees and flowers when there's regular grass undermeath but they're surrounded by fake grass.
at the moment i don't have any qr codes or patterns in any of my towns, which honestly i'm quite happy with.