“Back when there were gatekeepers, at least there was a gate and you could go, ‘That’s the gate. And if I go through that gate, good things will happen,'” he said. “Now, there’s a million gates.”

—Andrew Clark cbc.ca/news/entertainment/comedy-business-booming-1.7248706

Personnaly, I’ve always been a fan of the gatekeepers. For all the bad they can do, they (their teams usually) put in a lot of work to improve the quality of the product and filter out the oh-so-humungous amount of dreck…
Just my 2 cents.