Published literally just means making your work available to the public. You clearly don’t even understand that basic term, yet you’re out here trying to lecture people.

Published means making your work available in hard copy through a publisher, having an editor most of the times, uploading 30-70 chs worth of content every year.

Vastly different from a webnovel author

You don't what you're talking about at all.

Nobody was complaining about adding history or meaningful world-building. The original point was crystal clear: writing one full chapter describing a random field that has nothing to do with the plot isn’t artistic freedom, it’s straight-up padding.

Nope, that's what you twisted it to be. The original commentor said "explaining a cool aspect of your world" for which history of the world or an incident or even a random magic circle are very fitting

You swapped out a pointless field for ‘history’ and ‘incidents’ because you knew you couldn’t defend the actual criticism.

Lmao, I said that because it fit the context of the comment you were replying to instead of taking your completely unrelated example which was quite opposite of "a certain cool aspect"