The decline in Nepali public aesthetics

Why are we spending millions on view towers on hilltops, where the view is already worthwhile?

" Salute ! To the God Ganesa!... On Thursday, the third day of the bright fortnight in the month of Kartika of Nepal Samvat 822 [1701 CE], the people...were sent to fell the trees in the jungle." Thus begins the Siddhagni Kotyahuti Devala Pratistha , a manuscript from the 18th century that details the construction of what is perhaps the apogee of Malla architecture in Nepal Valley: the Nyatapola Temple in Taumadhi Square, Bhaktapur.