It's not surprising, it's just that she was getting widespread systematic and cultural pushback in the vein of: "It's not the time to tell stories about White Men". Of course, her own rejection of the industry wasn't popularly covered either in the press.

The industry preference is for sympathetic stories of Aboriginal, LGBTQQ, PoC etc..

This becomes apparent everywhere there is government or related money, i.e. grant applications for projects, even commercial enterprises.

Of course there's some thoughtful impetus behind this on some level, but these trends become cultish and authoritarian, sometimes promoting some upside down worldviews.