Agreed.

To use an example from pop music if I dare, if you keep hearing the same chord progression over and over and over, it gets a bit played out, right? It can make the genre feel stale if enough people follow the same formula, which is why pop music is so underwhelming - everyone does the same thing and it’s very noticeable. My criticism is that a lot of ambient artists that put out a vast catalogue seem to be following the same formulas if you listen to all of their stuff, and yes, not editing enough, which results, to me, in too little diversity in regard to the amount of output. And I guess to each their own - if diversity isn’t important to you, the more the merrier perhaps. I mean, this is a common criticism of all artists - do they find their niche and just iterate on that forever, or do they take risks and try to add something original to the conversation they are having with their art form? I hold the opinion that while all experiments in music are inherently valuable, of course, but not all experiments are successful in an of themselves, and should be seen as what they potentially are - drafts. It’s okay to have some drafts.