Some of my most meandering, borderline on topic opening paragraph pieces have been boosted. I get bored of everything having the same scripted structure, a lot of the time these identikit edit suggestions kill the writer's voice. The last piece I removed from a pub that wanted heavy edits got boosted when I self published, had I done the edits they might not even have nominated it as you say, it's a balance of is it worth my time sometimes. I do question my choices and take on board helpful edits but if it seems like they just want things dumbed down I start to get irked. 😅