Sorry, but this is not rocket science.

I know what’s happened in publishing. Similar has happened in my field (architecture), and it’s sad and also silly in that to maintain standards we wind up with people spending part of each day doing tasks they’re overqualified for. That also means that those professionals get their pay degraded- the difference is…

Why do you hate to do this? It’s not all good. These are supposedly writers, who are getting paid to write.
There’s no argument here about whether an insight was profound enough or whether a turn of phrase was creative.
This is the basic, basic stuff. This is your mechanic forgetting a couple lugnuts, or your house…

It is spelled assept.

Oooh I’m so sorry I hate to be one of those people but:

“That Deadpool excepted the nomination”