I suggest you watch the video by Grant Abbitt on Youtube making a Treasure chest before narrating any further videos.
It is a waste of time to model something with geometric (Engineering) precision only to be made imperfect (gradually) to fit a diametrically opposite artistic style. Your style of modeling feels like (for example) you are taking too long to create a perfect model of a Photorealistic Wild Duck in the forest and then (claim) with (self rewarding awesomeness) to be inventing artistic ways to turn that Model into a Cartoon like a Donald Duck. In America, this is what they call a “Shot gun Approach”. You are trying to target students who want to learn mesh modeling with Engineering /3D Printing precision and students who want to learn mesh modeling with the least engineering precision (Low poly style). When this happens from a so-called great instructor directing his/her students, it is perceived as a lack of direction or teaching skills.
In his video of the treasure chest, Grant Abbitt on the other hand, starts with a rough primitive mesh and ends with a rough low poly model. Along the way he teaches excellent techniques and his instructions are succinct and to the point. Never once does he beat around the bush, and never once he gives instructions without purpose.
