Larry was the biggest opponent. He said, in NME I believe (paraphrasing), "We have all this stuff inspired by Fez, much of it very far out, but what do we do with it? What can we make of 10 minutes of rhythmic drums? We had to find songs out of what were just sounds." It was Eno who brought them to the Fez world music festival in the first place.
You're right on the remixes though. I misspoke. What I meant to convey was the multiple "false starts" on a song. How many different versions of NLOTH, Crazy, Boots, and Winter exist, compared to Magnificent, MoS, and Breathe, which were more fully formed from the start. They seemed to be putting trial balloons out for different versions of a song. These aren't remixes, these are fully adjusted compositions of one song. That tells me they were unsure of what song fit their theme. That trend sadly had continued on SOI and now with SOE. Maybe they just did a better job of hiding this earluer, but it seemed excessive to me starting with NLOTH.