Steve Schwartz wrote:

>We had an incredibly wonderful fight over this some time ago.  The
>positions are, essentially, ...

One recurring position I heard was "repeats served a useful purpose when
music was being heard for the first time, but now that the music is so
familiar, they're useless/irrelevant".  This is a variation of "the
composer knows best", i.e., "the composer knew best then, but this is now".

len.