I'm not a "quick and easy" type person. I treat my quilts as art, design my own patterns, and often have no idea how to construct what I've designed until I actually start trying to make it. I prefer to work with small units, both pieces and finished blocks. The current design has 2.5" blocks and the next one has 3".
All that may make more sense if you consider that I've been quilting for over 4 decades, am retired, live alone, and have many professional artists in the family.
That said, I totally get why a great many quilters prefer "quick and easy" even if it's just for some of what they choose to make. It, in very few cases, translates as "haphazard and messy".
Circumstances, tastes, and experiences change and the "quick" quilters of today may very well turn to "slower" quilters at some future time. And if not, isn't it GRAND that we aren't all identical!!