Don't BOTHER writing NONFICTION

There's an ongoing war within the writing community....
Okay, maybe not a WAR, so to speak, but a but of tiiiiny battles.
Self publishing vs. traditional.
Business writer vs. Artist.
Quality vs. quantity.

Today (apparently) it's nonfiction writers vs. YA authors.

Who's to say a certain TYPE of book has more value than others?
Who's to say FICTION is the SUPERIOR writing genre just because it sells more books?
Are we going to ignore the centuries worth of life stories and history lessons we had to learn from?
Maybe the problem ISN'T that there are autobiographies...but that people don't read them enough.
Especially when those same people believe imaginings of a fairyland with a sexy elf trump somebody's harrowing life story.