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As much as I understood it, Steven 'd have no problem with changes in general as such.
Suggesting reasonable changes is an editors task too.
It's rather the "Have you considered twerking a youth apprentice into your story? Being a member of some point toothed alien race?" what he seeks to avoid.
Every improvement is a change; not every change is an improvement.
I remember having heard, that music companies nowdays run new artists demos trough software comparing audio patterns on some kind of mathematically cOmpareable levels. "that sells - do it alike" at its best:
(I wouldn't really wonder were this true to a very high level. For me a great deal of the chart-listed stuff sounds awfully similar and equally boring.)
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