Controversial writer opinion, but I'm never hiring an editor ever again

Cost me $1400 for <40 hrs of work (he did charge an industry rate of whatever per word, but with Track Changes I could see the amount of hours he spent on it.) Hired him for a development edit, which he did not do. Instead he wiped his hands when he was done and told me to "nuke it" and do it all over from square one. His dumbest comment... people would confuse my male weather god, Storm, with the Marvel character.

The worst part, he came highly recommended from some of the more popular and successful authors from Twitter at the time. This was a glowing referral! I'm still glowing with firey rage, years later after the book has been published.