Why all the hate for Weed & Feed here?

What kind do you use and where do you live?

I NEVER want my grass fed, ever.

My issue is the lack of control. Maybe you want a little more fert but you can't do that because you'll also be putting down a little more weed control. What if your grass is dark green and looking just fine so you don't want to fert it as much but you still need the weed control. You can't do that either. What if the weed control in the bag is meant for cool weather but it's been sitting in your garage because you didn't use it all in the early spring. Now you apply it in the summer and it does damage. What if your yard only has 5 weeds and your yard doesn't need a full broadcast spread of weed control.

Because virginia buttonweed and chamberbitter say "hold my beer and watch this" when you put out weed and feed.

I don’t think it’s a hate or beef - as others have stated - it an issue of getting maximum benefit of the herbicide and fertilizer, and applying them simultaneously as a weed & feed product doesn’t always provide for that.

Weed & Feeds were developed as convenience products for consumers, and there are windows of application time, late March/April in the Deep South, where they maybe perfectly suitable for use. But late winter and summer are not particularly suitable times to be using weed & feed products.

You aren’t getting good coverage with nutrients or herbicide. Sucks compared to individual products. That’s why

My professors at LSU despised weed n feed. The "weed" part is a very broad spectrum herbicide that kills broadleaf PLANTS. Oak trees and azaleas included in that list. You don't put out enough to kill the trees outright but you poison it every year and stunt its growth. People only associate weed n feed with the lawn and don't recognize the damage they are doing to the other landscape plants.