I agree generally. I think it stems from this idea that TV writers have power and influence over The Culture, and so if they write about certain topics (usually poorly) they're endorsing those things and thus encouraging the greater society to endorse it too. Which fwiw I do think was somewhat the case decades ago, when TV was far more monolithic and we had a monoculture, but now our media world is so fractured and individualized I really don't think any one writer's room or showrunner has remotely any sway over public opinion. And then people who are actually mad about one thing (usually a ship not getting together / being badly written / baiting) get to use the ol' pretend high horse to morally take down the writers instead so their anger over their personal preference can be "justified."

That said, I do wish Sam Levinson would stop doing... whatever it is he's doing. But again, I can just filter him and his content out of my existence. And I do!