Yes, my first thought when reading that was how my first creative writing teacher in high school would have red-marked the heck out of that. I don't even like to think what the oft-published profs I had in college would have done.
And I haven't been "a professional writer all my professional life." ;-)
At ND, I had the privilege of having the finest English Professor anyone could ever hope for, Dr. Ed Cronin, PhD Chairman Emeritus, GPLS, who has since passed on to a greater reward.
The first time he returned our compositions, which he expected to be rewritten with appropriate correction, he firmly stated:
“Do not mistake those red marks on your papers for ink. They are the Irish Blood I sweat over every word you write.”
Most posters on this forum would not have made it through the first week.