[long_time_gone]

Your reasoning contains the same assumptions, just in the other direction. You seem to be saying that if masses of people enjoy something it must be “bad” on some level.

[toyg]

Nope, not said that anywhere above; just that popularity is not necessarily the be-all and end-all of literary quality.

[long_time_gone]

> I always say, that sort of reasoning leads to us eating shit because billions of flies cannot be wrong (cit).

You didn't make the distinction "is not necessarily" in your first comment. That changes the connotation.