I agree with most of your points here, but the beauty of the self publishing world is that at the end, the readers review... and the readers don't care if a professional editor gave feedback, or if it was promoted by a huge marketing team—they're just responding to what they read. True, a lot of it IS bad, but the readers out there will let you know what is good as well. (I'm personally self-published and very proud of my 150+ reviews and 4.9 average!) I agree there's a lot of self-published work out there that is not worth most folks time, but SOME OF IT IS! Some of it's pure gold (cough, cough) and definitely worth checking out. At this point it would feel rude not to drop a link haha https://www.amazon.com/Not-That-Anyone-Asked-Finding-ebook/dp/B08LG5V4X4