No, it isn't the ratty foliage. It is the fact that if you don't dead head every day, the blooming flowers are surrounded with mushy blooms of yesterday.

I have well over 300 clumps and all are just beautiful blooms (threw away all that weren't!) but dead-heading every morning just isn't in the cards for me.

If someone could hybridize a self-cleaning daylily, perhaps I could love again.