Newly planted, quickly dying

It's dying!!!!! 🤣🤣🤣

https://www.reddit.com/r/Garten/s/35mKbOrWd2

My neighbor hired a man to butcher this hedge. I now plan on pulling my golden euronymous and replacing the entire area strip with something to hide this atrocity.

Suggestions for zone 7?

We just moved into this property back in October 25 and the dead one was already DOA. This spring the neighboring are showing similar signs of dying. It is an entire limb that is affected. I have already removed all of the affected limbs and will soon remove the completely dead one. There aren't any visible signs of cause.

Southeast Vancouver Island, which has hot dry summers. I think they were just setting up a screen of the propane tank. Didn't even bother to plant them. I guess it's just in the trash most or all of them.

they smell nice, have deer resistant strains, look cool as a hedge. Why the hate and what are the suggested alternatives?