Why would the production of a stop motion effect be considered time intensive

Because you have to do frame by frame movements and depending on how smooth you want your animation to be would depend on how many frames are required. 

Yeah,i'm gonna take my horse to the old town road. i'm gonna ride till i can't no more.

Well, in the music industry during the 80s  cyndi lauper took a risk in changing a certain type of music art into something creative with her hair dye and wild hairstyles that were bold, her style was entice and screeching that she actually did her get a lot of hate for it because at that time hair dye and crazy patterns wasn't the norm girl's just wanna have fun for example that changed the work of her genre and a lot of people were influenced by her ways. there was other people who took the dare but not a lot. that itself refers to change in art style, because modern times changed.