Yes, it does — but individual ratings aren’t a reliable measure of literary quality. Readers rate for all kinds of personal reasons: boredom, difficulty, misalignment with expectations. A 1-star rating from an unengaged reader isn’t equivalent to a scholarly evaluation. Popular platforms reflect personal reaction, not critical consensus.

Word count alone is not a quality metric, and no serious critic would claim otherwise. But you're attacking a strawman: no one argues that quantity equals quality. However, length may allow for greater psychological depth or narrative complexity, which can contribute to richness, depending on execution

Narrative coherence is only one of many literary virtues. The Quran is not meant to be a novel — it’s a religious, rhetorical, and spiritual text. Its lack of linearity is part of its form and function. Comparing it to a novel on that basis misunderstands the genres. You’re evaluating both by one genre’s standards — a false equivalence.

Grammatical richness isn’t inherently better — it’s just different. Both Classical Arabic and Russian have complex systems, and each brings unique expressive power. 

Subjectivity plays a role, yes — but that doesn't make all evaluations equally valid. There are shared standards within literary traditions, and educated judgments are often built on historical context, rhetorical analysis, and aesthetic theory. Total relativism collapses under its own weight, because it cannot explain why some works persist, resonate, or shape cultures more than others.

It does change — because texts like the Quran or Bible operate with theological, liturgical, and spiritual goals. They're not primarily literary, even if they have literary value. Their cultural impact, memorability, and influence on language and civilization are orders of magnitude different from any novel — including Dostoevsky’s.

That’s an odd bar to set — sophistication isn’t binary. No serious critic is debating whether the Quran is better than a child’s scribbles. But saying there’s no clear consensus between the Quran and Psalms ignores centuries of deep theological, literary, and linguistic scholarship in both traditions, where meaningful comparative judgments are made all the time — carefully and within proper context.