In 2022 the New Yorker wrote up the CYOA franchise, early history and later existence, in a story that is a choose your own adventure itself: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/09/19/the-enduring-a...

Also, if CYOA software is something you're into and you aren't familiar with interactive fiction, there are worse places to start than https://ifdb.org/