Shameless Promotion of Article that Drove Me Crazy

Normally I don't plug articles I write here, but the editorial process for this Budget Travel article memoir/list of call outs proved such a hair-pulling nightmare, I'd love some feedback.

You'd never know it, but they chopped out some really fun stuff. The main issue was that they told me that they wanted back roads, real Aruba stuff. And I wrote that. 2000 words of it, actually. But what they really wanted was a list of tourist attractions. Which is fine, but I wish they had told me that from the beginning. Tell me, is it as bad as I think?