I think the comparison is wrong here. For hollywood or film making, it is about the story telling. One has to create and destroy scene to produce story.
From what I had read from some of the upset people was that what’s wrong with the ad was in the realm of waste = bad. But I’m when I bring up the Hollywood example for waste, it goes out the window.
If this ad was part of a longer movie, would it be ok to crush them all?
If it was say a scene in a dictatorship story where people are not allowed to make new music or something, would someone talk about the waste of a perfectly good piano for the scene?