Late to the party, but I completely agree.
People become writers for very different reasons. Not everyone writes as a happy escape into a perfect world, or a heartwarming story with a good ending. Some people write to get through trauma. Others because they want to bring certain bad topics to attention that would otherwise be shunned. For a few people (like me), it’s a compulsion.
If darkness is not your thing, you don’t have to read it. There are dozens and dozens of legacies and challenges on the forums that are perfectly lovely and often hilarious. It is perfectly okay to have a preference for lighter stories, or happy endings. But it’s not okay to try to force that preference onto writers. And insulting their work or the writer themselves because what they make is different from the things that you like is just plain wrong.
