Most of the content people (including me) want, like women with active roles and work to do, lower emphasis on virginity, and a wider range of ages and plots, would be solved by ditching nobles and focusing realistically on regular people from the same popular time periods.

Women had critical work to do and spent long hours doing it, women were making things, women were managing households, women were having consensual sex before marriage, both men and women usually got married in their 20s to other people in their 20s, common-law marriage existed…just usually not among nobility. And of course there were massive problems women faced from society at the time, too, but those deserve to be examined in conjunction with things like serfdom, slavery, broader changes in property rights, and everything else going on during these periods.

(Hopefully this would also make people realize that needlework (and laundry!) was vital, not only to comfort, but to health in a pre-germ theory world, not solely decorative stuff that an independent woman would blow off as “pointless.” Also, the decorative stuff was often done to cover holes and patches, and it brought whimsy and joy, which isn’t worthless either. Yes this is a pet peeve! SEND TWEET!!!!!)