I've been reading a lot of fan fiction-turned published fiction recently (e.g., The Path of Ascension, but also a lot of crappier books that I get 10% through and put down), and there is an emergent hole in the new books on the (self-published, Kindle) market; despite having no editor, they generally have pretty good spelling, complex narratives, and not especially bad writing styles; they certainly do more writing than I ever managed. But they don't know their vocabulary. A 'overstuffed bag' becomes a 'teeming bag', 'nuclear deterrence' becomes 'nuclear dissuasion', 'unscathed' inexplicably becomes 'unchecked'. Some cases are maybe spelling errors, like when 'hotels' becomes 'hostels', or honestly not caring, as when failing to notice that a rapier is not a double-handed war-sword.
My theory is that spellcheckers and/or Grammarly give people the feeling of having proofread without having actually proofread. My other
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