Sometimes a persons passion sees no boundaries. Technique is a protagonist of emotion. Certainly, the image is most important, but try tell the greats that obsessing over technical means they're inferior.
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What the quote
"I agree. It just goes to show the stupidity of the argument that people who obsess over technical stuff must be artistically inferior to those who do not"
means is that those who "obsess over technical stuff" are not necessarily inferior to those who do not, which is obviously true at least in some situations--namely Ansel Adams. He was a great photographer, and he did obsess over technique, especially in the dark room and with printing.
What is also be true is:
(1) "Those who obsess too much over technical matters may miss diminish developing their creative ability."
(2) "Those who do not obsess enough over technical matters may diminish developing their creativity ability."
Does anyone--or
can anyone--reasonably disagree with those two statements?