Tell me Gimli wasn't a softy!?! That tolkiens dwarves weren't heartbroken that the crafts of elden days no longer saw the light of torches or had admirers? That their beautifully engraved walls, that their primary goal in life is to make aid or witness a wonder of ARTifice. (the only two grudged pairs i noticed so far in DF were "Value art highly" "doesn' value art highly") [that no sin was too foul to get their hands on the masterworks of the noldodododo.]
Still, dwarves are also nothing if not practical, mining doesn't automatically produce smooth stone or engravings, [hah] because the practical part must be done first, whereas in kraftwerk, everything is done at once. Toady has levels of improvement, but the base item qualities are automatic, (there was a great nurgle themed short story called the black tarn, btw.) and higher quality comes from lots of previous work put in so [......] support of quality taking time so the issue simply seems to me to be the frequency of superdwarves, still, this is related to how people play that game, I don't suppose many people who've been playing long leave hauling jobs on for dwarves they wish to get skilled, which increases the speed with which most dwarves "level" by degrees. So, blame yourself, hah. Exceptions ofcourse seeming to be engravers and miners, maybe other trades i havent noticed yet.
Paragraphs? Who needs em.