That would make a lot of sense. Because as tempting and funny and explanatory as it is to assume she's just a grandiose buffoon, on the pure human level that's probably unfair and distorted. But see her as stuck in a groove and it does explain a lot. Similarly, I think that one of the reasons for Anne Rice's dip in quality is that she started trying to produce two books a year and it just wasn't working, and it shortened her book-to-publisher cycle detrimentally...