When you go to Artstation it's like... characters everywhere. But I suspect this is a false impression created by the fact that characters are just more impressive. More people have emotional reaction when looking at a character than when looking at a piece of environment. So characters get likes, characters get promoted…
I was meaning in environments with many sculptural pieces, like elaborate fountains with human creature sculptures mostly. In that sense you may need to get a character artist into the environment team for this responsibility working alongside them for that task. Depends on the studio size, project work and resources they…