Donald Fagen's Nightfly - Love it or Hate it?

Great album. So is Kimakiriad. Morph is a distant third.

Nightfly, to me, is an all-time classic. I recall being floored hearing Fagen do "Walk Between the Raindrops". The arrangement in that song is, well, perfect...leading me to ask ,

Does anyone know what the above poster means when they say "too perfect".

Don't get me wrong-I like the record. But I can understand that someone might say it's "too perfect". Like much of Steely Dan's stuff, it' kind of a mixture of happy upbeat pop and pseudo jazz but if your tastes lean toward other types of music that a lot people consider to have a real "edge" like small group jazz, rock, blues, r&b or stuff like Tom Waits/Bob Dylan then "Nightfly" can seem to be a bit sterile and mechanical.

It probably boils down to what kind of mood you're in.

How can something be excessively perfect? Maybe it's like over abundant or past history.