I like to read story collections when I am on vacation, they are perfect on the beach. What I have noticed, though, is the tendency of recent collections to include woke selections, and stories that portray conservative people as bullies, always edited by a DEI editor. It’s not fun when after a couple of paragraphs you know the story is going to follow the predictable leftie narrative.
Science fiction went that route about a decade ago. FemNazi garbage twisted every story. Glad I have digital copies of my old 5K collection — it will last me for rest of life.