Yes exactly. I've heard others express similar sentiments, but apparently the mass of voters feels differently...
I don't think I'd mind so much (I swear at Rusch more loudly and frequently than Fellini) if it weren't for the pagecount. Analog in particular makes half their issues 50% uninteresting to me by cramming them with big dull novellas. Don't think I've been impressed by an Analog novella since Mike Flynn's one about the caves and silicon life back in October of 2010? 2009? somewhere in there. "When the Winds are All Asleep" I think it was. I think some of the extra annoyance, beyond just being an author I'm not as impressed with is that she's the primary perpetrator of these novellas that kill my magazines. Anyway, I'm honestly about one more big Rusch novella away from letting my Analog subscription lapse, and I don't think I've ever been that annoyed with an author.
It's kind of weird, given that she isn't the worst writer they've ever published by a long shot, and I know that on a prose level, But it's more annoying because of the volume, and yes, probably because of all the people making me feel like I'm in the minority and maybe Analog is something I only like occasionally lately because it caters to these other people. Like how I would be really unimpressed with story selection for a magazine of teenage vampire love stories, but that magazine is pretty clearly not marketed toward me. I know Analog has often been kind of a punching bag for criticism, but I honestly used to like it a lot more three or four years ago than I have lately, although even then it probably wasn't my favorite. Sorry for the big long ramble.
Anyway, it's a good thing Albert E. Cowdrey has about a 66% hit rate for me, or I'd probably have the same complaint about F&SF.
EDIT: Just thinking about this and looking over the magazines, there have barely been any Rusch stories this year, I realized I'm still peeved from
last year. Huh. Now I feel irrational. Or maybe Stan Schmidt could hear my psychic threats.