I'm sure you are speaking of Adam...well, my hat's off to him...if he has enough iniative to go out to the mudpile and scrape something fun/interesting/challenging out of it, that's just awesome in my book...
I love it when people sit back and bitch about stuff, but don't actually put any elbow grease into developing an area...just gripe and complain and then actually go climb something that was prepped w/ a ton of work...that is LAME and sanctimonius in my book...
debasing the rock? the rock doesn't care...now if you were removing challenges for future climbers, i understand that point of view, but no one else is developing anything there and the lines that A has put up, no one else was interested in...
granite is clean as is quartzite, but smith is a shitpile of compressed mud and the amount of cleaning and prepping a route requires is just atrocious...have you tried to do any new routing there? you might not make statements like you've made...