This paragraph raises many complicated issues, including whether our primary concern should be what most users want (still not known, of course) or our sense of what care is warranted by the material itself.
 
Different users interest in the material is going to affect whether they prefer quantity over quality.
 
At the Whitman Archive, we also worry that if we privileged speed of production and quantity of output over the quality of the work, that we could be charged with using public money to produce slipshod work.  The dangers then would be that someone else would need to come along and seek additional public money to redo the work to create reliable texts.  Or, the work would not be redone at all and people would be uncertain whether they could trust anything on the site.