I guess, the generative metrics people care what makes a verse metrical or not, analogously to what makes a sentence grammatical. It doesn't get very far at answering why metrics exists in the first place. One example is the severe downplaying of rhythm in Fabb and Halle. For them, it's almost as though rhythm were an accidental byproduct of meter, rather than the reason it exists in the first place. Fabb even denies that meter is temporal in character.
I'm looking again at Cureton, Rhythmic Phrasing to see whether that might be applicable.
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