I can definitely see both sides of the argument here. I will add that in rural Detroit with the high concentrations of muggles and crazy weather we get here in MI, that there are a lot of us who do maintenance when we are out caching. Granted a large number of the local cachers are very close and own 90%+ of the active caches within 30 miles of my own residence.
Have I fixed a lazy owners cache? Probably, but enough of the other cachers have taken note and I usually get a thank you from the CO.
Do I hope someone would fix one of mine if they found it in disrepair? Absolutely! Sometimes things happen I was in the hospital for a long while early this summer and was so relieved a newby cacher re bagged one of my logbooks. Ziplocs rip and snow plows hit trees things happen during our crazy winters and we except that it most often does a lot of damage to local caches.
What fun is caching if all you have to look forward to is paper-mâché and angery logs