I 100% blame this on liberal educators. They destroy all love of reading by their self-righteous agenda to force kids to read bullshit literary books which are boring as hell.
You know why so many people think that they can write when they can't? Because they attend classes at university which teaches them to include bullshit garbage like the character must change, or you must bring in the angst and the meaning of life.
Kids aren't interested. All they do is begin to hate reading and take no interest in it. My daughter had absolutely no interest in reading by her 5th year of school. She was semi-literate. Not one bit.
I started reading her adventure stories. On day 3, she was addicted and never stopped reading. Years later I asked her why she hadn't wanted to read. Because they stuff they read her at school was boring.
I have a big problem with all these English graduates who teach English students that writing is about meaning and feelings and humanist problems. NO, it absolutely is not.