yeah so if there are worse writers, why do people use Tom Clancy as an example of shit, when there are worse?

Tom Clancy is trash. He has an almost 'production run' like way of writing books. They are all the same. Any character from any of his books can be interchanged with any character from any of his other books. Any plot from any of his books can be interchanged by any plot from any of his other books. This is why he's able to shit them out at a rate of about three per month.
There is [someone hostage/a bomb in an important place/ a hiding assassin/ a foreigner] send in [team a/team1/team alpha] to [kill/destroy/unplug/rescue]. Insert generic [traitor/spy/conspiracy/coverup] to make people who don't read much think it's a decent story.

He might be average by cold war thriller standards (I DO NOT KNOW, IS THIS A WHOLEY GARBAGE GENRE????) but he is one of the best paid novelists for essentially writing something any of us could've done as 15 year olds. He is the TEAM ALPHA equivalent of Dan Brown I guess. Actually I think Private Eye's literary critic does regard him on the same level as Dan Brown and Stephanie MyOOHVAMPTORSO*glomp*

Some things you don't need to explain disliking, generic, repetative unimaginative garbage is one of em.