The reference to 'literature by the pound ' made me think of an apocryphal story about a pottery teacher who at the end of the year would grade his students on either the quality of a single piece or the weight of all finished pieces. With very few exceptions, the best piece of the year would be one of the ones where a student went for volume.

Which is plausible if you need to touch each piece- more repetitions lead to more improvement if you're already motivated to improve anyway - but if the output is coming from an llm, I'm not sure ..