They probably had a lot of false attempts before they got one that stuck. They don't wear very well. They don't wash very well. And if you have allergies like me, they itch like crazy. But here is the thing about fig leaves that is more important than all that.
Fig leaves are easy.
The tree will grow more. The fig leave is the human attempt to fix a very serious problem. You could just imagine all the dynamics of that. On the one hand you could at the problem of the fall, and you could say it is really not a very big problem. We can fix it with fig leaves.