Going with the vision of one man, and the "style that he prefers" is often better than design by committee, or data-driven decisions that end up in the best cas

Going with the vision of one man, and the "style that he prefers" is often better than design by committee, or data-driven decisions that end up in the best case being a bland product that nobody hates, and in the worst case in a crappy product designed with the interest of the companies that produces it and its partners before the interests of the users/customers.