Writer-For-Hire and Ghost Writers

     I don't know about any one else, but as an aspiring author and an avid reader, I don't know how I feel about writers-for-hire and ghost writers.
     Writers-for-hire. Okay, if you are not aware of what a writer-for-hire is, it is when a publishing company wants a certain kind of book or series to come out but no one is submitting that kind of work. Then, the publishing company talks to agents to see if they have authors who would like to take on this project. The author does not come up with the idea of the books or characters. They write the books but they usually have to follow a pretty strict outline given to them by the publishing company. Some examples of this are the Fallen series by Lauren Kate, the Vampire Diaries series by LJ Smith, and the Kissed By An Angel series, by Elizabeth Chandler. These authors do not come up with the ideas for these books, they are given the ideas and then must write the books. These authors promote these books and go on book tours and talk about how they came up with the story for these books and what inspired them, when actually they did not come up with the ideas. It makes me feel like Lisa Simpson when she found out a beloved author of hers did not in fact write the books she is given credit for. Lauren Kate talks about how a passage from the bible about angels falling for humans and then falling form grace inspired her to write the series, but that is just an elaborate hoax to tell the adoring fans. In some cases, like the Vampire Diaries, LJ Smith did not like the direction in which the publishing company wanted the Vampire Diaries series to go, so she no longer writes those books. However, someone else writes the books, but LJ Smith gets paid a lot of money to keep her name on the series. This is a form of ghost writing.
     Ghost writing. Ghost writing is when someone other than the author on the cover, writes the books. The author on the cover gets all the money and the credit, without actually writing the book. I'm certain the ghost writers get compensated, but still if they are the ones writing the books, they should get their names on the books.
     There is technically nothing wrong with these things, but as I said, I am an aspiring author and an avid reader, and writers-for-hire and ghost writers leave me feeling cheated. I fall in love with these characters and the authors who created them, the stories in which they tell about creating them, and then learn that they in fact did not create them and it feels as if a rug is being pulled out from underneath my feet. Writers-for-hire don't bother me so much as ghost writers. A writer-for-hire didn't come up with the ideas, but they still write the books, whereas a ghost writer writes the book but gets no credit for it.
     What do any of you think about writers-for-hire and ghost writers?