@ontrackp: I share your sight of view. Composing is creativity. Without this creativity there won't be any! So my main focus is on this. The technical belongings are very important, too, but since the majority of the participants here is not a professional composer, one can IMHO easily judge the creativity because there is no (or less) compositional craftmanship, just talent. I don't want to offend anybody! I think you all are very talented people with deep skills of sounddesign, mixing/mastering/production and, of course, composition.
I just wantet to make clear, that I can see the difference between profs and amateurs (or anything in between).
The skills in mixing/production can be learned, which I hope for myself. After listening to all these tracks here in round #104 (and I follow the OSC for at least 5 years!) I can say there is much to learn from you.
And to answer your question: I would rather prefer a better quality of composition/creativity than of mixing producing. For I have much more fun listening to good music instead of only good sounding music.
I also like very much constructive criticism in my work. You never stop learning!
Just my 2 cents
Indeed, most of the outcome of every OSC are really decent tracks I like to listen again and again. They are in my playlists and in my background music routine in Spotify 
KO 
