Directors Distress

How do I balance a list of popular prolific directors and obscure directors with small oeuvres?

My entire life, I have ordered the world into lists. I was about 21 when Chris Cuthill introduced the idea of a Top 100 Movies list (blame everything on him), but my mind had been using lists to impose order on the chaotic world since I was young. Even where actual lists are not made, hierarchy is extremely important for me. My intense social anxiety ki…