PERFORMERS OR PARASITES?
There are two types of performers: Homo sapiens and Homo primitive.
Both types can be talented and curious.
Homo sapiens are explorers, active minds, thinkers, logicians with the ability to gather relevant information and draw conclusions. Such performers know how to fill themselves internally to get the best results at a performance, they rely on their own minds, so they are equally good at performing both living and dead composers (to which they no longer have access).
Homo primitive are parasites who, lacking an analytical mind, look to the composer for explanations. Instead of doing the work themselves, parasitic performers interrogate the composer in order to understand the idea of the piece and get into character. Collaboration time should be used to resolve technical issues, not for chit-chatting and expecting the composer to entertain you enough to do your best.
This same parasitism is demonstrated by many zombie interviewers asking artists clueless questions.
Explaining to parasites is a waste of time, for which they will not pay with even a sincere understanding of the topic at the end of the explanation. Thus, any comments and inputs on their part are simply unnecessary.
Solution for parasites: if you can't understand a piece yourself, perform it superficially, purely technically. And at the same time, in the age of the Internet, don't prevent yourself from becoming Homo sapiens, use your brain and do your research.