Bad authors simply spit something out on the page. Does anyone care? It doesn't matter. The main thing is that you say what you think. You're writing for yourself.
You won't become a great author with that attitude. Great writers have the desire to connect with the reader.
Stephen King calls it magic. The author writes something, the reader reads it and both have the same image in mind - even though they are in two different places at different times. The text connects them in a magical way.
If you don't want to connect with the costa rica telegram screening reader, you will always be condescending. Readers hate that. They don't want to be patronized, they want to be understood.
Love your readers. Try to understand them. What keeps your reader awake at night? What fears do they have? What desires do they have?
If you don't respond to this, you're like a politician in an ivory tower who only issues decrees and doesn't give a damn about the people. "If the people don't have bread, let them eat cake."
Have the desire to touch the reader's heart. To change the reader's mind.
And when you change his thinking, you change his life.