Rather unfair, don'tcha think? "interpret?"
Nope. An artist is an interpreter of his/her surroundings. A camera is a recorder of its surroundings. Some artists are creative and create new interpertations based on imput from their surroundings. Those artists are called designers. Most people are designers, I guess. A cook could be called a designer.
Yet, how many of them are on internet message boards sharing every step of the process with fans who care? I know of, let's seeee..... one.
...only because PL allowed it to be. Not many companies allow this communication.
OAB, speaking as someone who's done both, its frquently more difficult to copy something accurately than to make something up wholecloth, and the more complex the original, the greater the difficulty.
Oh.
as to the "butt-kissing", remember he's the point man on a product that most of us want quite a lot, and we want to givbe him as much encouragement (and deserved praise) as possible.
There is a lot of "butt kissing" over there....and there's encouragement too.
The words I used were... "a lot"... and that does not mean "all".
I hope the big E is "interpreted" better than how "a lot" of people, around here, interpret what they read.
OAB