I wrote more in response to an adjacent reply, but your analogy is missing the point. The work featured in those publications does indeed showcase the best “NB

I wrote more in response to an adjacent reply, but your analogy is missing the point. The work featured in those publications does indeed showcase the best “NBA players” and is better than quite a lot of other work at large. But it simply doesn’t aim to speak at all about the “players” of the NFL, NHL, FIFA, Starcraft, etc. And that’s exactly what the analysis in this article reveals. Writers in the literary genre critique and share literary works in journals for readers who enjoy that style. Meanwhile, other journals do exactly the same thing for their own styles-of-focus, and lots of writers and readers stride across all of them.