This is heavily dependent on your subject. As a side gig, I take photos of domestic animals (primarily dogs). Some of the animals can be posed like little doll

This is heavily dependent on your subject. As a side gig, I take photos of domestic animals (primarily dogs). Some of the animals can be posed like little dolls. Others can't sit still to save their lives. I also take action photos of them. I have to spend time manufacturing perfect, because I often can't make very many on-the-fly changes. But to capture that perfect, I have to take a lot of photos. As a hobby, I practice general photography, and my usual method is to lock some variables, and take several photographs while floating other variables. Also as a hobby I practice astrophotography, and here you absolutely have to manufacture perfect, because you only take a lot of pictures in order to stack them. A single photo can take hours to produce, so you do what you can to get it right in the first place.