I have just enough brains to say 'Yes, that's the standard hell of an editor's life' at this point. It's one of the reasons that when I had more to do with books, I was always grateful for the fact that titles were pooled among readers, and that if something really wasn't your cup of tea, you could pass with no foul.

I think that's why you need to have a decent pool of mods if an elite archive is to have any hope, and liked one of the suggestions elsewhere here that said mods declare biases, it would make it handy to know before following their recs.