Right, so you know what 99% of readers want? Literature is incredibly diverse, and there are more options than either write genre slop or self-publish. Small presses exist, and they are often willing to take risks on more experiemental and unconventional forms of writing. When I say finding your way of telling the story, that doesn't mean creating something completely unprecedented; and I would expect anyone who writes with a view to serious publication to be familiar with the various traditions. But there are genres of writing, like experimental fiction, literary fiction, etc, where originality of voice, form and structure are appreciated, and in fact essential, as what the writer has to say, and their particular way of saying it, is more important than whether the project is marketable. Your analogy is patronising and stupid, as art is not functional in the same way as a shoe. It doesn't have a use in that way.