One of the things hurting fiction of all types is, you can’t have an evil villain. Star Trek had to turn the Klingons, Cardasians and Romulans into people just like us, but different. To do otherwise was discrimination. Besides, diversity. They had to keep coming up with new villains because the old villains were just misunderstood.
That’s a great point.
Klingons are people, too.
A Tom Clancey book when adapted by Hollywood changed the villains from Islamic terrorists to Nazis. Nazis are always a safe villain.
Recently I’ve noticed it’s Russians. White. Post communist Putin thugocracy is also against the homosexual indoctrination. Easy villains.
In a high fantasy such as LOTR the fight against ultimate evil usually requires a truly evil villain, but in most fiction, the humanization of the antagonist serves to give him depth, bring him to life, just as the protagonist's "wound" serves to make him more believable. A good sign the author has done this well can be seen in a review for the crime novel, Collateral Crimes: "I loved the characters - even the bad guys!"
...you can’t have an evil villain.
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There are automated checklists that screenplays are put through. You MUST have trans, gay, various ethnicities who are important characters and whose *diversity* is incidental to their behavior or the performance of their roles within the story. SJWs offer diversity editing so that novels adhere to political correctness du jour.
Add that to the reality that FB or Twatter or Instagram can and will change algorithms on the fly and delete an author’s account for whatever reason they choose even after buying thousands in ads and:
Just like that, indie publishing has been ruined by the usual suspects.
Except for Orange Man and his white male supporters...they are all evil, evil, eeeeeeevil!!! :)