I agree with that. I think pushing kids into reading before they're ready is causing much of the problem. Kids develop at different rates and there is a stage where dyslexia is more common than not but that varies. Many kids are dyslexic at age 5 --- which means their brains are not ready to be pushed to read and you'd get more by waiting for them to develop a little more. Earlier generations might have learned phonics but earlier generations were learning to read in the first grade --- at about age 6 or 7 instead of preschool at ages 3 and 4. Kids whose parents read books to them will naturally pick up reading when they're ready.
My now 29 year old lawyer daughter gave us little choice. She would come beat on us with a book, yelling "book! book!", whenever she wanted to be read to. She's still like that, come to think of it. :)