He is operating on the serene assumption that, since it feels right to him, it will be right with the audience. No other popular art form is based on audience feedback. I will figure out whose work I am watching. In this country, I may recognize a Woody Allen movie, or something by Terence Malick or Tim Burton. There are no other voices, just interchangeable hacks whose names you don't remember ten minutes after you leave the theater.
Movies are a business and cost too much money to justify any risks.
But then you might as well stop making them entirely. No one really wants to see a play, buy a painting, or live in a building designed by opinion poll. A family in an opinion poll play would, I suppose, have 2.7 children. You are the carpenter. Don't ask us how to use your tools.