GUEST,ollaimh said,"but guitar players, learn to finger pick. it's a ;lovely instrument when picked and pretty dull most of the time when flat picked. you have to be twice the guitarist to make flat picking interesting. it can be dome but few do it."

Flat-picking can be quite tedious if people just strum across te strings, but most flat-pickers with any skill at all will insert bass runs and play bits of melody. Those with more skill can make the guitar sound wonderful.
I have heard finger-pickers who play the same pattern or arpeggio through the whole song, which is just as tedious as the strumming flat-picker.
But no one's gonna tell Tony Rice that he should learn to finger-pick nor tell Leo Kotke that he should take up flat-picking.
I like to do some of each, just for variety.