I don't see many animations in books and yet they are more than able "to create the right atmosphere and entourage".
Of course he has every right to do so, if he wants he can make one episode in 5 years period, the thing is that as a players we see constant development time rise and small percent of players care about these great new features. Don't get me wrong, I know DPC wants BAD to be perfect in his way and wants to constantly improve himself, but from player perspective we just get less meaningful content in longer time period. If he would not be that stubborn and take anyone for help, reducing update time, no one would say bad world about mini-games or 60fps, quite contrary actually.