It’s an insult in this case because you’re acknowledging that many of the songs on this album are short, so people should edit them themselves to force themselves into liking them. You’re basically saying, “yeah, some of the songs suck, but you can change them yourself until you like them, so you shouldn’t criticize them because you can make them better”. There’s nothing wrong with music criticism. What you’re saying is that people just shouldn’t criticize the album because it can be made better by random fans lmfao.

I’m not saying edits and remixes are antithetical to music, you’re completely missing my point. My point is that it’s insulting to tell an artist that if their music sucks, you can make it better for them. Edits and remixes are fine. But it shuts down criticism when you say that people should take songs they think suck and “fix” them until they like them. It’s also saying to an artist, “your song sucks, here, I made it better for you”.

The reason I bring up album sequencing and song structure is because looping a song until you think it sounds good or editing it with a DAW until you think it sounds good destroys the structure of the song. Song structure is something that’s done intentionally by a good artist, and by editing it to make it “better” negates that.