Is too much soup a good thing?

 
I love making soup as much as I love eating soup.
 
From looking at CTF's pictures I now wonder if there is too much soup in my creations.  Do you prefer more chew in your soup?
 
I start my soups on the stove and when I need more room to cook other things,  I finish them off in Crock pots.
 
These two soups started as one until I heard....  "You're making clam soup?  You know I don't eat clams!"
 
So I split my base between two pots, added different things to each and ended up with two disctinctly different soups.
 
 
The Manhattan Clam isn't finished in this picture.  If I remember correctly I added some more tomato sauce to this pot before it was finished.
 

 
Sudden Cabbage Soup
 


Should they have been thicker?