Should Season 4 have more than 16 Episodes?

Was it ever discussed why only 16 episodes when "seasons" of most other shows are around 22 episodes?
 
Thinking that keeping it at just 16 episodes will give the writers more reason to tighten up on the story-lines. Often times with the typical 20 or more episode seasons you get a filler episode that does nothing to move the story along.
 
Thinking that keeping it at just 16 episodes will give the writers more reason to tighten up on the story-lines. Often times with the typical 20 or more episode seasons you get a filler episode that does nothing to move the story along.

True; with a smaller season it forces the writers to get in their major story arcs without too much fluff. With the series starting to veer farther away from the source comics I wonder if they will start adding more filler since they don't have to follow a general guideline anymore or if they will keep it tight.
 
I think it's the tightness and focus that keeps this show popular, if they start watering it down over more episodes, I think it'll lose some of that appeal, to be honest.
 
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