Geoff, the scale of these films is immense. I don't think he was intentionally dragging his feet on anything. He has a ton of choices to make every second and yes, some stuff will fall by the wayside because he has to feel it out and if something is not right, it's not right.
As for the modification of Smaug in AUJ, that was due to the design team only having pieces of the dragon designed for AUJ and Jackson had a better idea when it was time to give the design focus for DOS. The wings as front legs was a much better design idea and actually worked well with the motion capture performance that Cumberbatch gave.
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