I've always loved plants and gardening. Back in the 70's I heard about bonsai, but thought it was something too difficult for me to even consider trying. (a secret, ancient art.) Then in the late 80's I was in Hawaii and bought one of those schefflera's planted on a rock. I wanted to keep it alive, so I checked around and found you could plant the tree with the rock in soil and that was the beginning of bonsai for me. In the course of researching I learned that bonsai is something anyone can do. An obsession was born, much to my husband's dismay.
Anyway, I'm glad there are mallsai out there. It introduces the world of bonsai to people who may otherwise never learn about it. And if all they want is an adornment for their coffeetable that eventually dies, isn't that what freedom is all about. Art can't be regulated. It wouldn't be art. Let us all enjoy bonsai at whatever level we are capable of enjoying it. A mallsai can bring as much enjoyment to one person as a old juniper can to another. Just my humble opinion.