I think it just depends on what the quilt will be used for. Obviously, I'm not going to ask a long arm quilting artist to "do his or her thing" on a baby quilt but I might would for a quilted wallhanging for the baby's nursery. Does that make sense?? For my bed and snuggling....I too prefer very little so it is SOFT :D But the quilting that these artist do is so beautiful.....I love to look at it :D