VomitHatSteve
Hat STYLE. Not contents.
Efficiency comes with time invested. You can't cut corners with experience and expect to be exceptional. You want to be more efficient but not by overlooking important details. I'm speaking from an artist's point of view. Not a production engineer's point of view. If time restraints are imposed on you, you just have to pull your priorities to the forefront and work from there. You may not have the luxury of time and patients when you're mixing. [Solution] compartmentalize your "duties" within the time constraints you're allowed. Execute each one in the sequence of their importance. Before you know it, you'll be finished with the project with a minimum of frustration, doubt, and self criticism.
I don't think anyone's suggesting not knowing how to achieve a given desired result. We're all just suggesting clever uses of the tools he has available to reduce repeated work.