I hope I'm not who the author was pointing out, but a lot of people complain to me more personally in very similar terms, suggesting my stories are negative and unhelpful, and worse that they're somehow bad for people's "mental health." It's very discouraging. I was especially disturbed to see this after I had just written a story observing that the worse things get in the current LGBTQ backlash, the more people seem to want to look away. Sigh.