I’m halfway with you, but I think there are a lot of objectively mediocre books when we use those objective critical parameters. Like music, there are ways to judge the quality of a book before you reach the issue of whether your yourself enjoyed it, and that shouldn’t be dismissed. I think we should just stop comparing apples to oranges and not expect something written to be a light fluffy one-day read to be judged by the same metric that a book written attempting to be objectively good. I can’t say either is better, but I can certainly say they’re different, and there’s nothing wrong with that! Everyone should read what they want.