Their authors have always been shit, now we just have evidence of them being personally shit instead of professionally shit.

Though in some fairness, the "authors of books about video game/nerd franchises" is one of the most vile pits of garbage writers jerking each other off and being political that I've ever seen, regardless of franchise. Blizzard is just one of the few who uses the novels as "required reading" to follow their stories, like absolute mongoloids.