This is oddly fascinating in the sense that it doesn't appear that the writer has spent any time with actual artists. He has so little understanding of why or how people make art.
Most American pop culture is in fact reactionary in exactly the way this guy wants it, but this is such a funny question to ask and then not attempt to answer
The USA absolutely loves art about cops, feds, capitalists, white suburban nuclear families, and the overlaps thereof. That's like 85% of everything out there. What more do they want? Okay fine, Harlan Hill can play Young Sheldon now
Yeah, that's not enough for this dipshit - he clearly wants that stuff to be applauded and raved over and rewarded too. It's the equivalent of an MCU stan complaining that Ant-Man vs The Inhumans or whatever doesn't get nominated for Best Picture.
I am also aggrieved that this is probably the first article in months I've been linked to from social media that I haven't been paywalled out of reading