At some point "fanfic can be as good as professional writing" became "fanfic should be as good as professional writing" and that's caused major damage to fandom spaces.

Love how when you are a comic fan for long enough you always eventually have one ‘obscure’ character, which can range from a side character that almost no one but you has ever heard of to like an average b lister hero with a consistent ongoing book, who you are delusionally convinced just needs that one good mainstream adaptation and they would become universally beloved and acclaimed overnight.