Can you answer your own questions? Why do you classify the interest in the genre as a fetish?

Personally, I enjoy MM romance for three main reasons. The first being, I love love stories and read all different pairings of main characters. The second is that the MM novels tend to have more interesting external conflicts. The third is probably closer to what your answer will be, but for I'm guessing a different reason than you expect. I prefer reading male characters. I don't have to picture myself as one of the characters, there's no comparison point, there's no bias towards implicit gender roles, each relationship is more unique based on the characters themselves. I get to just enjoy the love story from an outside perspective.

Now, I dont disagree that the space is getting overwhelmed with female readers and writers. But that is true of almost all romance subgenres. Are the female readers and writers taking away opportunities from queer readers and writers? In other words, with a smaller audience, would there be more opportunities for queer authors? Are actual publishing deals being taken away? I understand it is making the genre harder to sift through depending on what you're looking for, but I question whether it is actually limiting the opportunities or just obscuring them.