Balance an article

How to write a good article?
No, this is not a recipe on how to do it - it is about my struggle. More or less how to balance all my thoughts and my data and ideally giving some interpretation but not speculation.
In other words: satisfying various types of reviewers.
Some want more of a review, some want less, some want an extensive interpretation leaning towards speculation, some prefer a short dry discussion with no speculation at all.
Not easy, not straight-forward, and the editors are often of no help either.
And it is - sadly - different for each journal, each manuscript.
I tried a mixture of review and own data which succeeded for my last paper, and it did not work well for the recent one - cut a lot and it worked. Whereas another manuscript needed even more review and speculation.
Cannot give a rule, I see no pattern in it. But I got a bit more immune to the replies and requests of revisions - experience makes it a routine and more of an "usual job".
Sounds, though, scary. More like "production", no paper being special any longer.
When is this threshold? After 5, 10, 20 papers?
How to reset it? Or is this a bad idea?
The less emotional it gets, the worse I think. One should have feelings about one's papers - makes one commited. If it becomes like administrative work - dull and routine - one should reconsider publishing. I am not going as far as saying every paper is like a child - that may apply for book projects or big reviews. But producing papers as journalists produce articles, well, sounds a bit frightening.

Judgment and Decision Making Conference

Already February and I should plan cofnerences for 2014 - well I started early, but most conferences are either too broad, or bianually. One relevant conference is this summer in Quebec but required a submission of a 6 page manuscript until 1st of February - a deadline not realistic for us who have in December and january the agend afull with exams and grant applications. So we had to give it a miss. However, in November is a well-fitting conference on Judgment and Decision Making - found through a researchgate "request" - that is now the focus. Deadline for abstract submission is in June - feasible despite May/June being again exam time.

Else manuscripts and revisions of papers have been paused, as the grant application simple had the highest priority - and submitted on friday. Now it is crossing fingers and back to papers and experimental work.

The next deadline for any kind of grant is in June - but hopefully there are good news in April/May from the other grant application - if not revise and submit the proposal in June then ... Well, don't know to be honest. We just calculated the feasibility of doing it even without a grant. Not impossible, just slower and a promising young researcher is not offered a job in our institute. He or she may find something else or leave science. That is the game - simple and far from fair. Luck is a big player - who knows who are the referees? Who knows what related groups just publish or submitted? Transparency? To some degree.

Anyway, now with all the exams done, focus is on Masterstudents, new data, manuscripts and lectures again.