Actually not a hot take at all. For decades people told, for instance, Toni Morrison to make her books more accessible to white readers. Centering white experiences and avoiding topics that make white people uncomfortable should be industry standard, they say.
So many people wish for writers to stop using their own voice and only write what's pleasing to what these critics imagine must be a wider audience. And you know, writers can do that. Stephen King became the most read writer in the world with an average word count per sentence below five, ditto average letters per word. An English teacher, he made the decision to filter the stories he wanted to write in an, evidently, commercially successful language. But I wonder what kind of non-reader wants to implicitly force everyone to be Stephen King.
