You're looking at this really sparsely, that's why. The numbers of tutorials have increased over the past couple of years because of the number of programs during this generation as well the time we are in. Tutorials were much more rare if you look at the number of them available during the 90's and early 2K's, due the…
Thanks for the feedback guys. My other option that I forgot to add was are they equally important. That seems to be a yes. What drove this question is that since my return to 3d I've seen may tutorials on sculpting. However tutorials on the basics of edgeflow, loops and good lowpoly topology are very sparse. The wiki here…