I think alot of the trouble is that they have to many stories that they want to tell and they are not very good at “killing their darlings” so to speak. So at first they go in one direction but then, oh no… they also want to show a bit of this and then some of that.
Actually like if they/(the writes) were the Little red riding Hood in the forest. She wanted to pick the nicest flowers for her granny and then she just kept going further into the forest because she always saw a nicer flower beyond the one she was picking, until she got lost in the forest and met the wolf.
It would have been so much better if they had written a clear outline for the story from the beginning and agreed on just a select number of tales to tell. Then maybe they woudnt have gotten lost between all the stories/trees 🙂