And I think there is a sizeable portion of the audience that would reject it. They are not reading to be challenged, they are reading for comfort and bias confirmation.

Everybody can be an asshole, even Phil your great uncle twice removed.

Yeah, and unfortunately they all follow a pretty stale formula. Surface level analysis, textbook like timeline of the campaign, heavy reliance on first hand accounts with little analysis, light criticism if campaign was a failure, strong praise of to was a success

When you are trying to move units, which is what publishers want, it is safer to just play the hits over and over and over again.

Just another artifact of the firehose of content everybody has available online. Other industries also have experienced this where the "middle budget/middle profit" area has evaporated. Video games, movies, etc. are either massively marketed events, streaming loss leaders, or tiny indies scraping by

That is such a good way to put it.

Good old 66/7/48, British Strategy in a Certain Eventuality.

What I should be doing: Finishing up the scripts on some of the upcoming Dunkirk episodes. What I am actually doing: Writing an entire episode on a single CAB report. Just gotta go with the flow sometimes.

The problem is that they don’t see that as a problem

I will not allow this Swordfish slander!