Korra

[Ibrinar]

I have to agree there, not about Korra just about the general point that it doesn't really matters to the quality level I perceive why something turned out bad. If I was judging the writers skills sure that matters. And it sucks when quality suffers from outside circumstances but it still suffers. But that something might have been better if not X does not make it better.

There are some cases where such info does change my perception a bit, like weird consorship in things would probably bother me more if I had no idea why it happens. But in general a work is what it is and the backstory how it came to be that way, while interesting, doesn't change much about how good or bad it is.

Edit: Although looking back at the beginning of the tangent Ramza's response was to the author being criticized for something directly, for that it does matter.