Of course, depending on your tastes, you might think that some those early publisher rejections got it right.
Moby Dick is one off that link in the OP that springs to mind.
More practically, it might also be argued that had one of these publishers decided to take on a book they were not enthusiastic about then things may have turned out quite differently. In this case
Twilight springs to mind, where a different marketing strategy may have given a very different result.