What amenities do you wish to add together? Is Recs and Parks an amenity? Is the police department an amenity?

I might point out that the assessment currently includes an amount to recover over $500,000 of past overall operational losses.

However, there are certainly many folks who feel the same as you. My guess is the vast majority of them are people fairly well off financially. OP is a diverse HOA, from an economic demographics standpoint. This is very unlike most HOAs. You are obviously not on the low end of OP economic demographic and probably don't care if the assessment is $900 or $1800, just so you can play your golf and have a drink at the YC when you come back from Florida. Perfectly understandable.

From my perspective, I just believe the losses at golf and the YC represent failures of management, and those losses represent wasted money.