Humans love drama. The news is mostly an entertainment medium. When your on the other side, talk about something with nuance and suck the drama out of it, you see that nobody really cares to read it compared to the dramatically colored version. Which means less ad revenue and thus less money. It's the same supply & demand you are talking about here.

I've seen it when I've written tweets, write it dramatically, engagement everywhere, write it with nuance, nobody engages.