Way back upstream in this thread, MtheGM told us, quite rightly:

I am somewhat reminded of Dr Johnson on the role of the critic: "You may abuse a tragedy, though you cannot write one. You may scold a carpenter who has made you a bad table, though you cannot make a table. It is not your trade to make tables."

That reminds me of a comment by some writer back in Victorian times, to the effect that "The art critic's position with regard to artists and their work is like that of the astronomer as to the stars and other heavenly bodies. The astronomer has the privilege of telling the populace where the stars are and what they are doing, but he has no business and no power to tell the stars what to do."

Dave Oesterreich