that fix will never be as good as just tearing down 1 sheet of dry wall and replacing it .cost about $ 5 and some elbow grease
so for the same price you payed for that puddy you could of had a bran new section of wall..
To simplistic? only to those that don't know any better. just because they don't know what to do, they assume its complicated.
i would have had to texture an entire wall as well as match it's paint. that is a couple pieces of sheetrock (not $5 a piece, genius), an entire can of paint, hardware (screws), putty (to cover the screws), and a huge amount of texture.
instead, i used materials i had laying around, a $5 can or texture spray, and some free touch up paint that the apartment gave me.
i was not charged anything from my security deposit for the wall. they did hit me for $100 to clean the carpet by my growspace, but i am not worried about being the best carpet cleaner. i am a carpenter type of handyman.
sometimes it i better to patch than to tear down.
in any case, the "my lai" approach will not go well in the general election.