"has it accured that perhaps there are very legitimate reasons??"

There may indeed be other legitimate reasons, but i have yet to see anyone clearly present one. Instead what i see are people who make broad generalizations about the community based on hearsay and conjecture while not bothering to become a part of it to see if any of it is true. Time and time again i have seen posts like that crop up at Epilogue and time and time again i have seen the editors and members invite these people into the community so they can have a first-hand knowledge of the process. Yet time and time again these people refuse to accept that invitation. They would rather fume and foam about the "injustice" of the Epilogue community than entertain the possibility that they might be mistaken about it. It's sad really...