You actually said that "ten years ago, there was nary an ebook that wasn't just a print-copy torn apart and quick-scanned, OCR'd and published without an even cursory glance at the resultant mess." I'm simply pointing out that Baen have been publishing decent eBooks for a lot longer than 10 years.
As you say, not worth arguing about
. We can both agree that the current situation of being able to get pretty much every newly-published book as a pretty decent-quality ebook is a very good one to be in!