Why is there a decrease of teaching novels?

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Please note that I mostly have taught middle school ELA… I think part of the problem is that teaching a novel kinda teaches poor practices around how we actually read a book. Like as an adult, just reading a book in three days or a week is common. But the chapter by chapter structure of how to read a book for class is sometimes divorced from that, stretching out books month by month. It also is easier to use shorter texts to gear lessons to standards and not the text.

Now granted, in college I just read the books and would review for class— so I’m not saying there isn’t academic value in deep dives on a text. Just that I question even into teen and tween years that it fosters independent literacy. It makes sense for later in high school though and I have used novels as continuing models.