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It's not just books that have expanded their genres. It's people too. Back when I was in school, we had hippies, nerds, cowboys, and jocks. When my kids were in school there were a lot more. Things I had never heard of. Goths and emus and things like that. Don't even think about trying to learn what's represented in the LGBTRXQWZ+ group. Have you looked at how many different music genres there are these days?
I think everybody wants to come up with a new identity to describe what they are - an identity that is unique and different from every other person. But there aren't enough real identities to go around. So you end up with a bunch of meaningless and made up differentiators. This is what has happened to book genres, and everything else.
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