So this whole time you guys were full of shit about the whole "trad publishing is dead" thing.
What the hell?
You guys said it would be impossible but all I did was submit my work a couple of times over a year and then send my work out to small publishers that published stuff comparable to mine.
That's it.
That is all I did.
Do you guys even submit your work?
Are you all just the writer equivalent of an incel where you complain about not having a gf but haven't talked to a girl in ten years?
And before a bunch of submissioncels get upset and post a bunch of proof that the publishing industry is a mess; I am not debating that.
The difficulty has probably provably gone up but that isn't the point, the point is have you even tried?