With all due respect.....those sound like the words of somebody who would want to copy everybody else, and their "typical", "regular" way of doing things, rather than trail-blazing and setting a NEW Standard. The exact mind-state that is poisoning us, and trapping us inside of a box, stuffed away in the corner of a storage unit, long forgotten about.
Make no mistake about it: It is going to take a fucking MIRACLE for the NorthWest to blow. There is no doubt about that. In the mean time, we need to be doing the things, coming up with the plans and thinking the thoughts that nobody else dares to try. Let those people lack Confidence, Originality and Testicular Fortitude all they want--they're making money already, they have that luxury. We, though, are not.
It's time to shake things up.