Don't get me wrong I prefer high quality. But, for me, there comes a point where it becomes just a matter of higher or higher. When I lived in Az. there was a saying about the heat. Once it hits 100 it doesn't matter the actual temp it's just fucking hot, lol.
As far as quantity, I know how much I smoke and what I need to make that happen. Once the grow is dialed in to that amount striving for more just simply isn't a priority. I could take my current set up and easily double and probably triple what I shoot for. But it's just for me, wtf am I gonna do with more than I can use with some left over in case of disaster? I got out of the game years ago and have no desire to start back in again at this point in life.
Why do I grow?
I've built my therapies around it. I could make a monthly or so drive to Colorado and stay supplied with good weed but that would be a minimal use for me. I could get on my State's MMJ but I reject any program that costs patients $500 just to get access to buy cannabis and then no whole plant, fuck them.
My LBD really boils down to a choice of quantity or quality of life, I choose quality. So I incorporate my cognitive and memory exercises into my grow system. It the main reason I run my res in such an unorthodox manner, not because it's better, hell I wouldn't even claim it's as good as a normal maint. schedule. but it serves more purposes than just keeping the plants alive, it helps keep me as sharp as possible in this unstoppable slide into dementia.
I grow because I was unable to find anything that brought any real happiness to me since Jeanette passed. we had planned on growing for ourselves once the kids were gone so I was already studying. I've found peace and happiness in my growing, it reminds me of her, and it's the continuation of our plan.
I love the smell of growing and flowering cannabis and I like the sound of falling water. I actually realized recently that I've become so accustomed to the sound I need it to sleep now.
For me, it's so much more than just the final product, which don't get me wrong is a definite benefit. I've got a high yield strain and a high THC strain going right now, Wonder Woman and White Widow, but I'm most excited about my Candida plant at up to 20:1 cbd:thc.
I guess my point was even though those things do factor in the order of priority of reasons people grow are very individual.