Since none of us can know when the right time will be, our job is to get to the right place and stay there. I've always liked that quote. Someone is getting published everyday. Even in the novel industry, there are hundreds of authors. When I walk through the genre section at Barnes and Nobel, it is forty feet long and six feet high.
New titles rotate through constantly.
The magazine market is somewhat analogous. Despite some magazines' disappearance, there are still numerous markets. Although the competition is fierce, editors must find new work. Someone will write the stories that the editors find. Selling a work presents incredible challenges, but publishing or not publishing should have nothing to do with the impetus of the stories, at least for us who are not making a living at it.