My garden soil benefits from the hard freeze, weed suppression of the snow, bugs, etc. I also would spread some seeds during this time, food and landscape, knowing they'd have time to soften and then would bloom when "regular warming" occurred. Now I can't do that because they'd try to grow off schedule, likely then be killed in a freeze.

A lot of intentionally and naturally placed landscaping will try to bloom and end up being damaged, killed.