>> “..and some people want to avoid reality.” <<
I’m an old guy and have seen plenty of reality, bad and good (both in my own experience and through others in non-fiction and fiction). I’m not someone who pretends that bad things don’t exist. I’m well aware of them, too well aware. What I want in my old age is — as much as possible — to enjoy the good aspects of reality and avoid the bad. I classify movies that make me feel sad among the bad.
If I must learn more about what’s bad, I prefer to do so through reading — in relatively abstract terms — not have it be re-created in fiction, for me to experience the emotions vicariously. In fiction I’d rather have something pleasant, or just enough of the more unpleasant aspects of life to make a happy ending more appreciated (something we can’t always control in real life but can in fiction).