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7/10 means it did a lot of things well and was generally enjoyable but was not a particular standout. If that's the average rating I assign to stuff, it's descriptive, not prescriptive, meaning that that's simply the level of quality most published works attain.

A 5/10 is a work where the good and bad are of equal magnitude. For example, I'm alternating between a grimace and a grin with 50% duty cycle, or it just did nothing particularly well OR particularly poorly.

The reason why ratings on the lower half of the scale are uncommon is, well, because it's really pretty hard to actually do so much so poorly. Like, if you're trending toward a 3 or so, somebody somewhere should be raising the alarm and you should be canceling or doing massive overhauls. Because really, a 3/10 is like, a good concept that you just effed up every step of the way, or like a bad concept that you somehow managed to put an interesting twist on like two or three times.