The thing you're missing: for most MR readers, and virtually all MR authors, there is no such thing as "good enough" which is short of perfect. Even the people who can't get their stories anywhere close to perfect (a few seriously grammatically challenged people come to mind) are trying for perfect. They think they're doing it right. "It's good enough" isn't what people expect here. It's not what they do, and it's not what they read.
Well, except for the Alternate Civil War guy, but he ran away and wasn't any fun anymore.
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