You know, I think this issue was already addressed in the thread "are technical issues outstriping artistic merit" or whatever it was called.
But seriously, Kevin Caldwell made Angel with like, next to no "insane" effects and it's one of the most succesful AMV of all time. I came from having AMVOCD (for all thsoe of you who have seen my first video "Lies" you know how much I wanted to minipulate everything and make a technically superior) and I find that I am ivolving into the other direction. Some of the most impressive AMV of all time took next to no effort. Hell, my newest video took me 15 hours to make, and required litterally no effects, and it's been my most well recieved video to date. The truth of the matter is that the more expirience I earn, the more I learn that it totally doesn't matter, and I am, step by step, curing my AMVOCD.