The other - maybe a better way to put this argument - might be

Dear science fiction...what is it with your low self-esteem issues? https://damiengwalter.com/2020/09/14/genre-fiction-is-the-worst-thing-that-ever-happened-to-science-fiction/">https://damiengwalter.com/2020/09/1...

Or I guess an even better way

Dear Science Fiction AND Literary Fiction

Now that nobody reads books any more, why don& #39;t you team up and do something about this?

As in if the novel is ever again to be something more than that-thing-which-the-film-was-adapted from

isn& #39;t likely that the novels which people do read will be literary and sciencefictiony?

Now I& #39;ve depressed myself too far to actually continue this thread.

The novel is dead. It has no place in the era of algorithmically pushed content