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use it when needed, not just for novelty, and it's a great tool
I think the key is knowing when to use it Peter
Almost every architecture shot of mine since 2007 uses HDR - the reason being that ND grads blacken roof tops
you can shoot at that moment in the day when the sky and land is perfectly balanced and get great 1-shot architecture shots - but that's rather limiting
oh
and I use exposure fusion, which isn't technically HDR 
Exposure fusion is a great tool. HDR makes an image really stand out from the crowd .... if done correctly and not too cartoony! I tend to shoot for HDR all the time but don't process all the images as HDR.
I enjoy HDR and I hope you will too.
Photography is about playing and having fun and HDR for me personally is about getting something out of it i like, i like a painterly effect from my HDR images but i try to be careful not to go over the top with the effect, i have seen some pretty awful attempts at HDR where everything is bumped up like saturation, luminosity, and just about every slider is bumped up to the max and you get a shocking image in my opinion here's one i did on photomatix pro 4 and cs5 to finish.
In this shot i used 0.9 lee grad filter and lee circular polariser on the front of that with 3 exposures of 2 stops between them.
interesting - never known anyone use grads in HDR before
This was shot with 9 exposures of 1 stop between them
http://images.ephotozine.com/gallery/2012/03/normal/106723_1327274515.jpg
I know where your coming from ade but i think using a grad for landscape for me has become very normal on most shots and to be honest a bit of a mistake here but doesn't hurt the end result.
Like the image bullymeister and goes to show the different images and styles of image you can get from HDR.
I use grads for landscapes most of the time too - quicker and easier than HDR, and less stuff to get blackened by the dark part of the grad.
looks great - though the water is a lot brighter than the sky as a result
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