If I see one more dumb ass argument about readerfic I'm going to mcfucking lose it
"Readerfic sucks because it's always OOC" yes, so is a huge percentage of all fanfiction
"Readerfic sucks because it's embarrassing wish fulfillment" yes, so is a huge percentage of all fanfiction
"Readerfic sucks because it's just projecting" yes, so is a huge percentage of all fanfiction
"Readerfic sucks because I don't want to ship myself with a character" this does not mean readerfic sucks, it means you don't want to ship yourself with a character
Like as someone who's been in fandom for 20+ years, this is a cyclical thing. Every few years we reinvent the "bottom category" of the Most Loserish, Cringe, Embarrassing thing you can do as a fic writer. It used to be OCs and Mary Sues and overuse of epithets and sticking random Japanese phrases where they didn't belong. Now it's readerfic and crackships and what the hell ever the fanfiction quality patrol is on about these days.
You don't win a King of the Dorks medal by writing slightly less dorky fanfiction and being able to point to people who are lower on the hypothetical cringe ladder than you are. There is no cringe ladder. We're all dorks hanging out in the bottom of the dork barrel together. Own it. Be free. Live deliciously.