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I definitely don't want to open the topic of difficulty in games right now, enough ink has been spilled and hardly anybody ever changed their minds.
I do want to point out that an ongoing conversation with your audience is an optional part of the creative process - and one you'd expect to see normalized when art is mainly treated as a product. My view is that the value of art is lessened when that's taken for granted. It can be really interesting when a writer's relationship with their readers causes a story to go someplace unexpected. But some creators are jealous of their vision, and couldn't bear to take such candid feedback in the middle of their creative. It's easy to see both sides of that coin, I just wish people could be free to make their choices without thinking too much about the coin.
Yeah, I'm fine with leaving the difficulty subject alone; as you said, it becomes pretty polarizing.
What you describe about a more individual, self-owned experience is often what makes novels/writing so compelling to people, since they generally come from one crazy mind, undoctored. Even then, you might be surprised how many different professional editing roles tend to go into a very refined book.
Movies and games tend to involve an order of magnitude more people, not all of them holding the title of "Game Designer" but all having a very important form of input to the end product, both for effort and for decisionmaking. If the studio's lawyer takes a look at a virtual vending machine's set of drinks and says "No, change those two, they run a risk of lawsuits from Pepsi", is that "outside censorship", or does the lawyer count as "part of the studio" because he's at the same risk of publisher layoff as everyone else?
The hazy answers to that question, in my mind, are part of the reasons I don't find the "Author vision, unfiltered" argument so compelling, especially as games involve larger studios. I think you're right at least that it does create something more unique when a smaller, talented team is given reigns, eg Half-Life 2 or Expedition 33.