You're correct. But over a few decades of working in television, film, and now HD 4K video, first in commercial televisiion and now in the aerospace industry, I have long since learned that if you explain something thoroughly and well the first time, that's it. You don't then endlessly answer questions from people who don't get it or who are confused.
The one exception I've found is this forum, where since 2007 the same topics have been covered with the same quesitons and the same answers and opinions by largely the same people. I'm as guilty as anyone else but I find it an intresting challenge to see if I can give the same answer I always give but in a different form or style of writing. Helps kill the time during computer renders.
Of course, the only real audience for the answers on this forum are the new folks who genuinely are trying to learn something they need to know. The rest of us are just expressing the same opinons and experiences we've heard from each other a hundred times.
So the new folks are ones I write for. Not the longtimers who have heard it all before and are thoroughly rooted in their own opinions, beliefs, and biases.
I was given the task last year of writing and producing a video that is designed to help commercial airline pilots avoid what's called a runway excursion--- running a plane off the end or side of a runway during landing. It has become one of the leading causes of aircraft accidents and fatalities worldwide over the last four or five years. The audience for this video is every airline pilot on the planet.
It's not a training video--- airline pilots all know how to fly. It's an awareness and motivational video. A marketing video for not crashing your airplane, if you will.
There are a lot of factors to the story, some of them are fairly complex, and they had to be explained and illustrated clearly and effectively to audiences whose first language is not always English. And given the very cynical and jaded nature of the audience, the video had to be totally credible to them in its style and delivery.
The end result is a seventeen minute video which after the first time it was previewed at an aviation safety conference in Europe, the Boeing presenters were immediately swarmed by airline representatives asking to get a copies to use with their flight departments. Not only that, but Airbus came up and asked for a copy and they are now using it with their airline customers.
I don't believe in giving a partial answer to a question because that doesn't help anyone. If anything, it generates confusion and more questions. So you end up getting the endless threads about the same topics on this forum.
So, sorry, but if I'm going to try to explain something, I'm going to try to explain it as best I possibly can.
"Each to Their Freaking Own!" is a totally valid answer. But you know damn well some newbie is going to read that and ask, "But what do you
mean by that?" And this thread will get started all over again.