Your criticism sounds to me as if you have read too many critical books and are too smart in an artificial, destructive, and very limited way.
I write to discover what I know.
In yourself right now is all the place you've got.
I use the grotesque the way I do because people are deaf and dumb and need help to see and hear.
There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
Nobody with a good car needs to be justified.