By now we all know how difficult it is to find an agent to represent your work. If you haven't yet sent your manuscript to an agent I am sure you have read many posts on this website and you have now learnt it is not an easy process.
Should agents consider simplifying the process for themselves as well as the would-be author? Some claim they receive 1000 manuscripts per month and the average time is 2 to 3 months waiting for a reply if you receive one. Do you honestly think in a three month period that your manuscript along with 2999 others was read ?
Agents claim they can tell a good writer from the synopsis and a query letter. If you were an agent how would you simplify the process?
It comes down to luck in the end.
These sorts of problem helps to drive authors towards self-publishing where there are so many world-wide attempting the same thing, that one feels that anything of merit is lost in the ocean; gold-plated needles in haystacks; poor readers, how do they choose?
So far when emailing them with an outline of my new work I find them as bad as the worst employers. They don't even bother to reply