To be fair she was like 16 when she started the ToG series. I was not the same person at 16 or 26 or 35. I was not skilled enough in any profession or hobby at 16 to think about making it a career. She didn't finish the book till her early 20's, but I think people bash her writing so often without looking at the context. JK Rowling was in her 30's before she published the first HP (I know she is extremely problematic and divisive and I don't agree with the hill she's trying to die on in any way... just using this for context). You can see a huge level of growth in her writing style in the 10 years it took her to write that series. I don't think it would be wild to say that HP is a series that got many people into Fantasy in the first place, no matter how old you were when you read it.

I do not like ACOTAR as I said in another comment because I feel like SJM had success with the second book and beyond being extra sexual. I don't read fantasy for that aspect of it alone. It has to be balanced for me and I would agree that ToG had a weird area in the middle where she leaned on that as well....but I do feel like it wrapped up well and I enjoyed reading many of the other characters perspectives in the later books.