People often ask me why I got out of the theater. Frankly there are 2 primary reasons. (there are more but they seem not important here)
1. Not going to lie, greed. I was never going to live the lifestyle I wanted being a lighting designer.
2. (this is the relevant one here) Personalities.
For whatever reasons (and I can think of more than a few) the theater draws to it, no matter what the department, overly dramatic people. Often they are narcissistic and in my experience think they are far better then they have any right to believe. If there is one thing the theatrical arts has a surplus of, it is melodrama. This kind of behavior makes for a rather unpleasant working environment.
Don't get me wrong many if not most of the people I worked with were perfectly kind and generous people. But the ones that were not, only chaos knows how they functioned.
My first issue was money and that is always the sticky wicket. Theater is expensive and managing directors often have over the top "visions" and do not have the budgets to pull them off. You see this in high school and local theater especially. To offset the cost of the show itself and or other gimmicks (e.g. hiring "all NYC performers") often things like sets, props, and costumes suffer.
Scott seems to fall into this category, and there is nothing to say, but this is an old saw.