Haunted Mirror

I had a thought (which I think is a good one) about revision, about the mechanics of it. My hypothesis:

It requires the same creative synthesis of information to process critiques into a plan to revise as it does to write a story.

The reason I came upon this is in some of my critiques for Knight-Errant, a lot of the same keywords were hit upon, but opposite ideas forwarded as to what needed to be changed. In other words, if I'd simplified the statements down to bullet-points and mathematically set them against each other they would be opposites.

Instead, trying to picture what I could do about the flaws both were trying to express, I came to an image of what both were saying that meant a third suggestion of what I needed to do. It will accomplish the change, though not directly taking what either said.

And that is a process only the writer can do by looking at the advice and seeing the story and superimposing their vision of the story on both and adjusting it until something works.

I think I am complicating a very simple concept, but does anyone else have any thoughts on the hypothesis?