Such as Staten Island…
I have a yew just outside my kitchen window. If it was allowed to grow as it likes, I wouldn’t be able to see anything. It gets a buzz cut once per year and then it’s allowed to grow up and out until the next year’s cut. Same thing for the laurel hedge, except I do a hand-pruning in June because it grows that much.
Everything else is hand-pruned.
For a big property, wild is better. But we have a small garden, and wild doesn’t look good for a small space.
That big deciduous tree is an old magnolia, probably a saucer magnolia. It was large when I moved in here 25 years ago. It’s lost a few branches over the years, to heavy, wet snowstorms and tropical storms.