Why do so many contemporary literary fiction novels that are actually good get such bad ratings on Amazon and Goodreads?

Lit Bros with crazy expectations? Old people? Religious lovers of the classics who can’t handle modern characters? Random readers of entertainment fiction who thought Gilead was a Handmaid’s Tale sequel?

Being a modern literary author is almost impossible with the amount of overthinking polarized readers out there who’ve been trained by social media to deconstruct and destroy anything they can.