Ya gotta remember there are huge swaths of the country that can’t have / don’t have green grass year round. Frost, cold, lack of irrigation, a variety of reasons.

But those are the places where bermuda does well. It’s impossible to kill and does just fine (even though it’s brown half the year) with frost, cold, lack of water, poor soil.

Fescue is very beautiful yet finnicky. There aren’t too many places in the US where it grows well.

I remember my parents moving from Calif to the midwest when I was in my teens. They were gonna show those midwesterners how it’s done in Californ-eye-aye, so they had fescue shipped in for their new yard. After about a year, they raised the white flag, went down to the local store and bought some bermuda.