friction doesn't just make art great, it makes art period. and there are always, always trade-offs for reducing friction.

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the idea phase is the easiest and least valuable part of professional creativity. read the first draft of the first Star Wars if you doubt me Great art is made in the grinding, often miserable collision between the ethereal substance of an idea and the mud and blood and friction of reality

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"We've got an actor who can chew the scenery to pieces, let's have him slowly undress over the course of the episode to show himself literally baring his soul as he narrates one of the biggest ethical dilemmas of the show, stripping away pretense... and also mostly in the same three sets."

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That's one I made up off the top of my head - but by comparison: An episode that takes place entirely within established sets, with limited characters, that has exactly one special effects shot (an exploding ship), and which had other sets and character scenes cut for budget:

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time before the warp core goes into overload. One of them isn't actually their character but an alien infiltrator. They can't open the door or it will get out into the ship, and they need to trust each other to work on the engineering problem while also knowing one of them will get out if they can."

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