The civil struggles that characterize the 14th-century towns and cities were struggles in part between the greater guilds and the lesser artisanal guilds, which depended on piecework.
The piecework compensation used in crowd work markets provides ample opportunity for gaming behavior, which negatively influences the quality of the output.
Many of the band's previous releases had been piecework affairs, recorded over several months in numerous studios, and their songs underwent far more in-studio development.