... Dumb deontologist: "By 'principled self-cultivation' you're basically saying 'greed', right?"
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she never heard of Foucault
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No, actually it's a fair enough description. This is a good account of her ethical position: https://www.amazon.com/Ayn-Rands-Normative-Ethics-Virtuous/dp/0521705460/ …
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And if metaethics is your thing, here's a reconstruction of her metaethics (or, why be good?): https://www.amazon.com/Viable-Values-Study-Reward-Morality/dp/0847697614/ …
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She brings it on herself. She has a number of well-thought-out positions, and as can be seen in her essays, she's more than capable ...
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... of arguing in the standard philosophical mode. But she tends to present her theses novelistically, that is, in terms of vivid images.
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