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I think it's the job of storytellers to wind up exactly in the middle. They should tell useful, nuanced truths in a way that doesn't exclude anyone who might benefit from them.
I like variance on both those axes existing. That way there will be stuff in that middle for me. Not everybody will agree on where that middle is.
What's a nuanced useful truth to some may be obvious to others. What's an oversimplification to someone can be hopelessly complex to someone else.
If you try to please everyone you end up pleasing nobody, yadda yadda.
(Though some people probably can write really awesome and universally accessible stuff. I just don't want to hold everyone up to that standard because then I'd have waaaay less stuff to read.)
In this case, if you try to please everybody, you'll probably please people with similar tastes as you.
They still have the trade-off. They're just awesome enough that they can do better at both than you can do at either. They could have made it even more artistic, at the cost of being less accessible, or more accessible, at the cost of being less artistic.
I think you may have merged your response with the quotes (you need to have a blank line between the last line of a quote and the first line of non-quote text).
Fixed. I do that a lot, but I normally catch it.