It's one of the reasons I self-published my novel. Of course it may well be it's not good enough and that it would never in a thousand years get picked up by a publisher. But I was certainly not willing to spend months or years even finding out if a publisher wanted it, when I could get it into the hands of readers myself within a few months of finishing writing.

[if you want to maximise the chance of "making it big" traditional publishers are more likely to be able to make that happen, but for my part it's a hobby first and foremost, so that wasn't really a consideration I cared about at the odds of that are extremely poor anyway]