Zzz...my sense is that 99% of moralizing about authors is because it's a very convenient, conspicuous, and neigh-free bit of performative activism. Ask someone talking up their moral standards for authors about how closely they check that their clothing isn't made by poor & horribly exploited workers, whether their grocery store and its suppliers provide living wages & benefits, and what they'd do if they learned that their house was constructed by a notorious racist / sexist / whatever.

And maybe ask whether they look so closely at the morals of the script writers for their favorite movies & TV shows.