What wastes time is fan-mixers who claim to know what Brian was going to do with Smile, or not do, and post said speculations and wild theories in spite of what is actually known.
I think it wastes your time the most. I'd imagine most people don't care. Plus you gotta remember this is exactly what Brian and Darian had to do in 2004: figure out what Brian was trying to do back in '66 via speculation, theorization and of course (the one thing we don't have); memories.
Here's what I don't understand: Did Brian bring forth the Children's song and the Child Is Father of the Man vocals? Or was it just one of those.
Gee, it's a shame that Stephen Desper isn't here
You said it! Someone should go catch up with him
"We" also don't have Brian Wilson sitting in a room listening and talking about the music, "we" don't have Darian acting as the musical scribe holding the available segments using editing technology Brian didn't have in 1966 to shift sections around on the fly and audition how they would sound on the spot, and "we" don't have the ability to call Van Dyke Parks to ask about a 40 year old lyric.
The talk about Smile for the past several years seems to go pretty much the same direction. One one side, people who state opinions which are based on faulty information or way out personal theories versus the real facts that can be established, and on the other people who may be more tuned into those facts than others. The more people who spout wild theories to support their own sequences on fan mixes versus getting the factual info down first, and the more they blur the lines between trying to justify their own fan mixes versus learning and discussing the actual history, you're right - The less people will give a sh*t what they have to say and will tune out. That I agree with.
Get the history down first, get the facts and get them on your own versus "fact checkers" and other ersatz historians and collectors. It's out there if you look for it, the real deal.