Am I wrong?

Barging onto the stage to say—

• It takes 1-2 years to write a decent book—ideas need time to develop and ripen.
• The audience for proper SciFi is vanishingly small (drake equation kind of thing) and usually offers a negative return on investment or an unacceptably high risk for publishers.
• Banging out 4 formulaic books a year is almost always a better approach. Failing that, jumping on the current bandwagon helps with recognition, but rarely delivers classics.
• People who do it for the love (there is [approximately] no money to be made ) who try to reach new readers are often treated like beggars.

This means, in most cases, if somebody is smart enough to write smart science fiction, they are smart enough not to bother.

—escorted out the side door still ranting obscenities.