Worries me a bit that an established “natural selection” process pivoted towards quick turnaround. Thirty years ago publishing house would decline 99% of the manuscripts, the rest they will heavily edit, print in somewhat large numbers, and extensively promote. Today they accept more stuff, print in small 3,000–5,000 batches, then throw away forever. To me, feels like a young but promising author went from a 1% chance of getting recognized to 10% chance of getting printed and 100% chance of getting forgotten right after.