Comment by ChrisMarshallNY

Editing is critical. All professional writers get edited, and the quality of the editor can make all the difference. No writer likes being edited, but the editing can be the difference between success or failure.

I don't think that literary editors are doing a particularly good job, these days. That may be because they've all been fired.

LLMs can do a decent job of editing, but it imparts a "sameness" to the writing.