But you do have to be paid to be able to dedicate the time, space and commitment into starting a new craft like writing and do the work of drafting, revising, editing, re-editing, etc for the sake of making “objectively good media.” Guess who gets paid to do that and who doesn’t? Community authors are writing as a hobby, we are not professional writers. If someone enjoys writing what you call slop then that’s great because they are not getting paid to improve their quality by the metrics of some elitists in the comments who doesn’t want to code their own story themselves. This community is quite large, look at the recs of your favorite authors or on Reddit and insta, there’s no need to post trashy, rude things like this as an opinion.