The (social) democritization of publishing has resulted in some good things, while at the same time resulting in an ever lower lowest common denominator. For example, it’s kinda cute (where values of “cute” include “pathetic”) the way some 20-something subliterate wannabe writers try to emulate “adult” speech by using words of which they wot not the meanings. *heh* Cute but sad.
(Examples abound. Just check out a few “freebie” self-pubs on Amazon. 80% or more of them are written by “participation/attendance award subliterates” who really should not be self-pubbing. The other 15%-20% often come close to or surpass material published by trad-pub houses, which means that maybe a third of them are worth reading. *heh*)