Well, thanks for taking this bullet. I thought maybe I'd ogle the trainwreck, but by the end of this you had me convinced that it would just raise my blood pressure too high.

Why is he writing this piece that deconstructs a little of his own writing, and the opening paragraphs of The Lord of the Rings, and bitterly invokes midichlorians as an example of genre failure in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, without mentioning the "get beta readers or an editor" part?

My theory is that it's because he's never had a decent beta reader or an editor. Or, if he has, he has entirely ignored their advice.