You mean journalists noticed a problem and never formulated an idea of the core reason for it, or addressed it beyond the surface level realities of what it's done to people?

That's what I'm seeing here: A kind of "hmm that's strange... Anyway, incels are evil!"

The truth is that modern society sets people up for failure in that regard, in a multitude of ways, and this isn't being talked about.

Female mate expectations are a significant part of this topic, but as far as I can tell, it's a third rail. So the incel concept is fair game as you can safely deconstruct unreasonable male expectations, male mediocrity and male criminality.

>What may be shocking to some people is that this phenomenon applies to people of any gender

My point about what people don't talk about (and what those articles also ignore) is that it's not just men watching porn.

>Easy access to porn is part of the story, of course; in 2014, 43 percent of men said they’d watched porn in the past week.

Pornography is always framed as a men's topic, but I'd argue that's a very incomplete picture of what's going on.

EDIT: Maybe I'm being too euphemistic. My point is that no-one is discussing the fact that young hetero men now have to compete against pornography, and many are losing that fight. This is an enormous power shift that has largely gone undiscussed and many young men are unprepared to improve their chances, since they are ignorant to the problem itself (Parents giving out of date advice, etc.)