Well, as I said, I'm a writer. As of yet, I haven't written any fanfiction, though I was throwing around the idea of basically writing a Korra reboot that 'fixed' everything I saw wrong, but I ultimately decided against it. I was planning on writing a Naruto reboot until I realized the metric fuckton of an undertaking that would be. I'm doing my own fiction, but it isn't anywhere near worth reading yet. If there is one thing I will acknowledge is that creating content and evaluating it are two entirely different skills. I feel I am pretty damn good at the latter. The former could use work. But combine the two, and it is basically a long session where you beat yourself up, before telling yourself to get back at it and do better. Totally breaks your ego. But it's the only way to get better, I guess.
That's as good as an end to the debate as any. I'm just glad the points we both made got through in this otherwise huge and interesting discussion we've had. Thanks for the replies.