When in the making-of video they call it a labor of love, they meant it.

When you do something you love, streamlining the process -- removing stuff you love from your life -- is counterproductive.

Consider that people climb mountains they could hire helicopters to get to the top of. They train for months to run marathons they could drive in a car in under an hour. They change their children's diapers they could hire a nanny to do.