User blog comment:Furbearingbrick/No More Spinoffs: Desperate Struggle/@comment-4478426-20130101003128/@comment-5643552-20130101030833

So, basically, it's to prevent the content from becoming overly formulaic and poor in quality. The sad truth is that most people seem to either be incapable of or too lazy to produce "Original Content" that's, well...original. Most people just "follow the leader", so to speak. Without these restrictions, virtually every pasta would be a carbon copy of every other pasta. Also, they would suck. Hard.