Flaubert: "Be regular and orderly in your life like a bourgeois, so that you may be violent and original in your work."

Since a functional, well-ordered life leads to flourishing but is not grist for a compelling story, and since people are browbeaten to exclusively "write what they know," all writing now is autofiction from miserable and disordered personalities; people who have shattered themselves on purpose, believing they must do so for their art.