If Leonardo da Vinci had to please stockholders instead of expressing himself, we’d have a thousand versions of the same painting instead of a collection of unique and individual paintings.
A lot of what we consider “works of art” have nevertheless been contract work though, i.e. work that has been explicitly ordered. That’s not necessarily the same as having to please shareholders, but having to please clients can be quite tricky itself.
And what’d you get? People putting in 0.10. Unfortunately useless, as the poster above said.