I can assure you a sizable amount of people in the writing community look down on "authors" that only use ghostwriters.

Why do tech workers act shock that people hate this junk being force fed to them that they are now resorting to violence to reject said junk?

You think telling humans with specialized crafts that they don't matter is good politics? Good grief.

>You call someone an author when they use a ghostwriter.

i don't know about you, but i absolutely don't. either you write the book yourself or you are not the author.

as kendrick lamar wrote:

I can dig rappin', but a rapper with a ghostwriter?

What the fuck happened? (Oh no)

Or even more appropriate: a movie director is almost never on-screen but the actors aren't the ones determining the shots to use or writing the script.