A lot of campgrounds are seasonal and top notch potential employees usually have the option of full time year round work elsewhere. There are exceptions but that makes it hard for campgrounds to capture and keep high quality employees.
Also, they often have little or no experience actually camping, so they may put you in an unsuitable site because they don't know any different.
Net result is they tend to be less proactive in thinking ahead about what the customer needs. If the last site was 86, odds are they issue 87 as the next site without a second thought.
Usually unless it's a month or more, you pay up front (even longer stays, it's only rarely where they ask you to pay at the end), so not really an issue if they don't remember when you came in. Especially with the Rona, everyone is going credit card to avoid physical contact, so I can always pull up the bill for the last campground to document when we left there.
If the campground is mostly empty and you want to be away from everyone else, ask nicely if they have any sites that are more isolated. No guarantee but at least you put the idea in their head.
