I think I've seen seen this pattern with esteemed but overfunded creatives. No constraints, no outside pressures lets their ambition run rampant. Their project swells into a formless blob; a generic vision, an absent strategy, and infinite amount of time to do anything their hearts desire. Over the years, the participants conduct a disconnected, purposeless exploration that goes in circles. The everyday motions will revolve around the colossal, omnipresent but invisible pride of the project's "visionary". Kind of like planets around a blackhole.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thief_and_the_Cobbler is an unfortunate but enjoyable example of a similar cycle played over decades in Hollywood.
https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/medium-has-pivoted-so-ma... might also be relevant too.