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I see your point.
However, you assume too much - as you seem to often do. You need to remember that not all serious books get written only because some BPH advanced the money so the author could do the research and master the subject matter. Some authors come to the book to bring their own experience acquired from a lifetime mastery of their field. Do you believe that Richard Dawkins needed a publisher's advance to write the Selfish Gene? That Rachael Carson needed one to write Silent Spring?
Lastly, not all "non-serious fiction" ends up being unimportant to society. Adams wrote a fairytale about talking rabbits travelling the English countryside to found a new warren. We know it now as 'Watership Down'. It arguably has more lasting worth to literature and society than Job's biography.
I submit that most books of worth will still get written without BPH advances.
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