Artist and vidders are not more important. But they aren't less important. Right now the policy on the archive for fic is 'if you call it transformative work, put it on the archive.' For me, this policy is fine-- no one's digging through the archive for original stuff and getting it taken down. Other people want an explicit green light for original work. Which, you know, it's a good debate, it's an interesting debate. I've written a lot of OCs and historical fic myself that might fall in the grey area.

But my opinion is that the AO3 is about transformative work, and transformative work should be privileged above work that is not considered as such. It's not 'getting pissy because other people get to play first,' it's having opinions about the stated goals of the archive and how best to implement them. When you (general you) say 'art and vids are fine, but they're just going to have to wait because it's hard to deal with them,' what statement does that make about art and vids?