It seems to me that there should be a "where reasonably possible" modifier in some of the receptacle requirements. The NEC receptacle requirements should not be dictating the design of the house--that's getting the cart before the horse. Clearly there's not a realistic safety issue here--it's quite unlikely that someone's going to permanently park something in front of the appliance garages and run ten feet of cord to the receptacle on the far right. And even if they did, it's not all that unsafe. (Admittedly, cords are less safe than Chapter 3 wiring in the walls. But the small chance that someone's going to put something there for the long term, times the risk of a cord, isn't very big.)
I'm saying that the unbending receptacle requirements can get rather Draconian in some circumstances, and there needs to be a prioritization of whether you're designing the house for the convenience of the NEC writers, or rather the NEC exists to guide a reasonable electrical installation for the house.
