Thank you so much for the great answer! (zapped ❤️⚡)
I'm asking because I went the self publishing route for my first book and I'm curious about the process for the second. I actually got an extremely high quality final product that is indistinguishable from a traditionally published one, but I had to pay a good chunk of $$$ to make that happen between editors and cover designers.
The timeline thing is big. I don't want to be waiting for years for my story to get out into the world. On top of that, I've heard that sentiment from others that even through trad publishing they still had to do all of their own marketing/editing.