No, i am not, i am reacting to your introduction words to your 'anti-video', which are..:
"..it’s difficult to accept that what I’ve seen displayed
in product demos, and by the show offs on the showroom floor.."
Product demo's i consider what people like Greb, Nickel and "factory/company people/drummers" are busy with and show offs on the showroom floor i consider what everyone else is busy with, including artists themselves sometimes..
And yes, i know there are also guys who bring sticks to just hit every cymbal and drum they see, thanks again for the lesson though..
But i also remember seeing people like Jim Chapin on the showroom floor, between all the other noise, endlessly explaining Moeller to everyone who was interested or Tony Levin giving a nice bass demo at a stand..
There can always be reasons found to complain about everything, but i am pretty sure i could have spend all days there with seeing actually a lot, like
a lot of things that would have inspired me to play something different when coming home than the most simple kindergarten beat..
Because playing
only that beat 2,5 minutes will also get you hired nowhere..
There is nothing wrong with chops, you just need to know when and how to apply them..
The nice thing about chops or licks is actually that you can pretty easily steal one (even from some of those "annoying" amateurs, because sometimes they also have some pretty cool ideas) and then when coming home you can change that one lick into a million sticking patterns, patterns around the set, groove ideas, etc..
There you go, a nice free lesson for your next visit too..