Writing a song has always been the easy part. It's all the other stuff that takes time and money. At that level, everything is a whole production. Everything. I

Writing a song has always been the easy part. It's all the other stuff that takes time and money. At that level, everything is a whole production. Everything. I don't see how this is any different from a writer's room for a TV show or movie. Those scripts go pretty quick, too. Maybe not 2 hours, but they have to deliver scripts in time for production to get it ready for narrow release windows. You're always going to get a factory process when a lot of people are involved because there are deadlines and checkpoints written into contracts. That doesn't make the output bad.