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The big advantage of a publisher is getting access to their distribution channels and marketing efforts. But if those distribution channels are becoming less and less relevant and the marketing efforts are often a joke (and a joke that the author isn't even consulted on), then it's not that surprising that a lot of authors would be questioning why they're bothering to trade away control of their work for increasingly negligible benefits.
Big publishers won't go away, but I think times are going to get very lean very quickly for some of them. Technology is making what they do less and less relevant and they don't seem to be adapting well to make themselves relevant in other ways.
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