When was the last time you reading anything that wasn't a YA dystopian novel? Serious question here.
Off the top of my head I can name a whole bunch of authors just within the SFF genres who write fiction for adults that deals with race, gender, sexuality, etc. Helen Oyeyemi, Aliette de Bodard, Nnedi Okorafor (who writes both adult and YA, it should be noted), Scott Lynch, N.K. Jemisin... and that's just modern authors! That's not even getting into The Classics™, like Joanna Russ, James Tiptree Jr., Ursula K. Le Guin (another author who wrote for both adults and teens), and so on.
I'm not saying YA fiction is inherently bad. I like some YA authors. Karen Healey is good. Tamora Pierce is good. But to say that YA is superior to adult fiction and has no issues whatsoever is ludicrous.
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Off the top of my head I can name a whole bunch of authors just within the SFF genres who write fiction for adults that deals with race, gender, sexuality, etc. Helen Oyeyemi, Aliette de Bodard, Nnedi Okorafor (who writes both adult and YA, it should be noted), Scott Lynch, N.K. Jemisin... and that's just modern authors! That's not even getting into The Classics™, like Joanna Russ, James Tiptree Jr., Ursula K. Le Guin (another author who wrote for both adults and teens), and so on.
I'm not saying YA fiction is inherently bad. I like some YA authors. Karen Healey is good. Tamora Pierce is good. But to say that YA is superior to adult fiction and has no issues whatsoever is ludicrous.