"Death of the Author" never originally meant "ignore the problematic aspects of the author" or "forget about the author."

It meant that the author's opinion of their own work was not authoritative and, in fact, that there could be no "definitive" interpretation. It was about how each individual's interpretation could be considered authoritative in its own right

It wasn't supposed to be about "we can ignore the author being terrible or trying to push a narrative." It works at a different level