One of the first things you teach students is that you critique work, not people.
Not unlike that mass production painter that was popular about 10 or 20 years ago, Thomas Kencade. I always wondered if that guy really liked the garbage painting he did or if he just did them because they sold. I'm sure there are a lot of artists that end up doing the same stuff over and over even when they are tired of doing simply because its what sells. What would really happen if Bricker went in a new direction? It's possible the places selling his stuff would stop selling them... So I can't hate on someone just because they do the same thing over and over. I may not like what they do, but if its making them money I can see why they do it. The people that do things they want don't always seem to be the most successful when it comes to money as the ones that just give the people what they want. Jeff Beck comes to mind as someone that seems to do what he likes regardless of what the people want and some of the music he has made isn't my cup of tea, others I can listen to over and over... but his career never really took off like a lot of other more commercial driven guitar players and that's the trade off of doing what your heart wants versus what sells.
