Clowniac There is a polemic question about the fact that the author owes nothing to the reader. There will be no readers, no writers.
I agree with you that the quality of the text is important, but if the plot is crap, then I would rather not read a very high-quality English text but with interesting content. Than excellent English without quality content.
It would be ideal - both the text was good and the content. But in practice, there are a million writers in the world, but not many read from them.
For example, I am now reading about 10 short stories, they write with some grammatical errors, but the content is interesting. There are novels where there is an editor, the text is smooth without errors, but the content is just water, it is not interesting to me.
Exactly as you write, the author does not owe anything to the reader, and so does the reader to the author. Everyone chooses for himself what to read.
Another thing is that there is such a thing as ethics, a culture of communication, rudeness, rudeness, is not acceptable. Putting pressure on the author, this is a bad manners. You can create in an atmosphere of joy and not pressure.
Thank you for your opinion.