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Hmph. You can have my Bernard Cornwell, EM Forester, Phillipa Gregory, James Michener, Anita Diamant, Colleen McCullough, Ken Follett, Jean Plaidy, Michelle Moran, Herman Wouk, Hillary Mantel, Mary Renault, Patrick O'Brian, James Clavell, Conn Iggulden, Margaret Mitchell, and a few dozen others when you pry them from my cold, dead fingers.
I enjoy visiting different places and time periods through the well-written eyes of fictional characters or fictionalized versions of real people. It doesn't mean I'm stupid or can't tell the difference between a work of fiction and a work of non-fiction or biography.
Fortunately, this has changed, but when I was younger, historical fiction was one of the few genres, other than romance, that had a lot of prominent, strong women characters.
There's a reason this genre has been popular for so long and stayed around through so many trends that have come and gone. Despite what OP thinks, it's not going anywhere.
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