>>9754285Do they? How do you know?
Also, there's a surprising amount of shit authors that change shit stupidly based on either direct feedback, or just confidence from how well they're doing.
J.K. Rowling added really stupid plots to spite her audience or answer criticism that just made things worse. Also, she went with all the most popular pairing of characters by the fanfic writers, even if it was incongruent with what she had been writing before.
The guys adapting Game of Thrones took the completely wrong lessons from what people liked the most about the first four seasons of the show.
Just to give random well known examples. There's many more and that's just the ones we know about.
This really isn't a wrestling thing, man, I promise you. I guess the difference is that with wrestling it's usually a more apparent "You'd make more money if you did this" than "It would be a better story if you did this", but the attitude is the exact same, the critics just use different verbiage based on what they think would be more effective if it reached the author.
