I read a 300-ish page book the other day, after not reading a lot of pro-fiction in a while, and it was like... pretty much just Fine in terms of the pacing and how polished it was. I could see the bits where the author was handwaving and trying to get something ticked off to move on to the next scene. It was mostly a pretty decent read and there was a lot I liked about it, but it was solidly mid and I was suprised that it had been published by a Big 5 publishing house when I got to the end and realised it wasn't an indie.

To be clear, this isn't a "which proves fic is better than books" thing, I was just kind of pleasantly surprised that you can get a good-enough-but-not-amazing-and-kinda-sloppy book professionally published in this day and age and have decent ratings on Amazon and GoodReads.