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It was my understanding that romance, as an umbrella, was the best seller of books.
The reason "just write smut" was the advice given to struggling authors was because the demand was there to make it a best selling genre, but people didn't typically write it. Now it's fairly saturated so the advice is less relevant.
Romantasy has been thriving in recent years but you have to market yourself to stand out. It's also been weird in that increasingly self publishing has been a better deal for authors of the genre.
Personally I'd love to get into reading it but I hear there isn't much good f/f content in the genre.
Kurt Vonnegut said there’s a lot of easy money in sci-fi, but no respect, i tell ya