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/

Or I guess an even better way

Dear Science Fiction AND Literary Fiction

Now that nobody reads books any more, why don'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't likely that the novels which people do read will be literary and sciencefictiony?

Now I'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