When I first decided to become an independent author and self - publish after having gone the trad route with nonfiction and made a few attempts to go the trad route for fiction, I knew next - to - nothing about the social media circus I was about to join. (sallyember.com)
Especially with the limited qualifiers you added; being successful enough to traditionally publish on your own terms (which indie publishing might * get * you to) or just wanting the traditional cred in itself are the only good reasons to take the trad route. (jenniferblanchard.net)