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Nothing wrong with being an indie author - but it's hard to get lots of sales without name recognition and the commercial publishers are better at creating that initial name recognition than the vast majority of indie authors.
That's why people like Stackpole and Konrath are benefiting the most from this situation: they're leveraging the benefits of indie publication to serve an existing audience. Authors without an existing audience have to create their audience before they can serve it. It's simply easier for those authors who only have to do one thing rather than two.
Both indie and commercial publication have benefits - but the greatest rewards are always going to come to those authors who can leverage the advantages of both.
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