It is not an awful attitude if you are on the receiving end of submissions by wannabe authors. I have a friend who regularly attends writers' workshops and she tells me there is a lot of bad writing being presented. Some people take feedback on board and improve, some decide the world is against them and refuse to listen. Both go the self-publishing route when rejected by traditional publishers. There are also syndicates of writers writing series of books under the same name hoping one of them sticks and sells the others in the series. There is a lot of crap out there.