Editing is hard.
Self-editing is really hard.
Any form of editing requires a specific awareness of what's going on in the story, self editing adds the requirement that you be able to see what's actually on the page, not just what you intended to put there.
One issue with self-editing self-published works is that there are people who take that route because they don't have the patience to put that final edit and polish on a book. As more and more people with neither the skills, nor the inclination to learn them, start releasing books the quality is going to go down.
It's a pity, but I don't see any way around it.
It doesn't mean there aren't good self-editors or good books in the self-publishing/indie sector: It just means that as the sample size grows larger the outliers are going to move further and further in both directions.
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