Good post, but you forget one perspective.
We need to respect the intellect and intuition of our readers.
Same goes for the writers. The reader should respect the intellect and intuition of the writer, but foremost should trust in the writer's guidance and storytelling, instead of saying; Oh, it's boring. I know better. It's like telling to a tour guide who is guiding tourists for 20-30 years in an unnamed province of China, he is presenting something very interesting, but he wants to leave the best part for the last so he is making a detour in the storytelling... but you interupt to tell him... No, you're wrong. It's boring. I know better, because I've seen it on National Geographic. So, this respect is a two way street. You may believe you know something better, you may tell this, but if it's about something what someone else created, that won't happen. You, the reader is only a tourist who is visiting the world for the first time, while the writer is your guide who knows that world inside out and revealing the story to you slowly. Who the reader is to doubt the words of the guide?
To me, that's like saying a person is too lazy to recognize a color when they see it. It's automatic. Involuntary. Instantaneous.
I would believe this, if I wouldn't experience this already. Some are even lazy to visualize a colors when they read it. So unfortunately it's an existing scenario.
As we can see, I'm in a bit of a ranty mood today.
It seems not I'm the one who is in a ranty mood today. :)
