> People aren't watching TikToks while video gaming.

I'm aware that the plural of anecdote is not data, but I can say from personal experience that most of the people I know pick up their phones whenever an unskippable cut scene appears on screen. Many, many people no longer have the patience for narrative in any form and as a consequence literacy rates have been declining for years.

> Libraries are reinventing themselves in many places

They have no choice. People can't read anymore. Fifty four percent of Americans now read below the sixth grade level.