I remember chatting with a ranger at Devil’s Garden CG in Arches National Park. He stopped by mid-day when we were putting the (then-manual) awning in, since winds had started increasing, and said he wished everybody would bring theirs in before leaving the campground for the day. Apparently it was a fairly frequent occurrence that people returned to find damage.
The push-button retraction we have now is so easy, there’s no reason not to put it in at night or when leaving the RV to go places. But we tend to stay just a few days maximum since we use the RV for touring and sightseeing rather than one-location vacations.
We all camp in our own ways, and I know many people set up in one place for a week or months, using the awning like an auxiliary living room roof - left open to protect all the stuff placed underneath.
