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>If you were talking about people valuing nothing in a book except the prose, I would see your point.
So you can only think in binaries? People can still value prose too much and render themselves unable to consider any value in a book with pedestrian writing.
>But the prose is the vessel that delivers the story, and a good story can be obscured by bad prose.
Can be, sure.
But I never see anyone actually make that argument. It's only "haha look at how pedestrian this passage is" "look at the author spoonfeeding to the reader here" and so on.