But it’s how people get into books, especially young people who haven’t developed a reading habit.
We do it some, but not always. Maybe half the lit books we throw at teens are ones they can identify with. And I’ll just ignore your silly slippery slope because it’s dumb and you’re better than that.
They used to argue for a ‘Hundred Year’ rule where nothing more recent than that would get taught. Someone advocated here once. Even I think that’s too much.