"the whole fucking point of leisure activities is to escape from the hellscape that is life and reality"

I get that you don’t like woke, but that is too blanket a claim. There has just been too much popular literature across America and Europe that has directly dealt with dire social and political trends of the day. Even when it comes to the issue of American race relations and the impact of slavery, Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom’s Cabin was one of the all-time bestselling books of the 19th century, so fiction readers clearly weren’t interested only in escape.