The main thesis I'm hearing here, which I think I agree with, is that a work ought to be planned out from beginning to end, and it simply is as long as it is. But then I picture some cigar-chomper type dude who thinks it's more like an assembly line where some products are popular so you make more of them, and some aren't so you shut them down. There's a disconnect (again) between artistic & commercial, between love & money, and between (as it were) work & play.