Friend of my wife just built a house next to our place, it is a boring rectangle with a boring hip roof but she did not have as much land as us and had to build a house to suit the block.
Admittedly she house a bigger house than us, an extra bedroom and bigger kitchen.
But she has virtually no backyard where we have about 300 sq mtrs. Maybe it's an Aussie thing but I do like having a backyard to escape to when I am bored inside.
Used to drive me crazy when we lived in the condo in the city for five years. Sometimes I would walk around the moat to shake off the cabin fever.

Also you need a backyard to erect your bar in privacy -

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Back half of it, up against the concrete block wall, will be filled in, walls made of concrete blocks. This area, 4mtrs x 3 mtrs, will have a table along the right side wall for my computer stuff. My office iow, music system, flat screen tv, computer monitors, bar fridge.
Might even put a bed in there if there's enough room and really settle in. Access door on left side wall.
Have a longan tree on either side of it, which is why I thought to build it there, so it is shaded for a lot of the day.
The actual bar will be on the front wall. Will buy a big thick slab of timber out at Ban Tawai for the bar-top.
Front half will be the same area as the back with dining table and seating as well as a few comfortable bar stools. Will leave it open for now but may fill it in with flyscreen later and put a door either side, the mozzies are bad out here at dusk.
BBQ will be under the longan tree on the left.