Parts of your entire response were relevant, and as much as I didn't want to quote your entire post, I'm lazy, sorry.
Well, I don't think I will ever understand that sort of thinking. It's not a bad mentality while you're young and have a whole lot of free time, you do you. But as you get on in life, you'll find less and less free time, after the machine swallows you and grinds you down to nothing. You either don't have time or you feel too tired, too shitty or you don't have the same patience as before.
Back to the sniping: suddenly, even a 20 page chapter feels like a chore and you especially feel the lack of motivation to do something that no one wants, because they already read it. Even a bit demoralising when someone asks you why you even released it... If the quality of the snipe was dogshit, yes, there is a point. If, as in this case, it is good (can't speak about the translation, but the rest), then there's no bloody point to wasting a day or more on it.