Wife hates the plants

Hey everyone, my wife does not like the plants in our aquarium. We upgraded from a 20 gallon tank to a 75 gal earlier this year. During the swap I replaced the plastic plants with real ones for the benefit of the ecosystem.

She thinks it crowds the tank to much and that the fish have no room to swim. She complain about the fish sitting in the leaves all day and don't move until feeding time.

She would like to go back to plastic neon plants we had in our original 20 gal tank.

Are the plants too much? Honestly it's my favorite part of the tank. I have Amazon swords, call, and Anubais.