I think you're not far off, and using art as a metaphor, you don't need to paint your house in shapes and colors that follow the golden rule, or write your to-do list in iambic pentameter. You can of course, and it might give you tremendous personal satisfaction, but it doesn't help the output be better.
I don't consider good abstraction a mere matter of aesthetics. But the economic realities of this field support your analogy regardless of that clarification.
