Reality backlash... why?

So I am reading yet another article on the hell of reality television and how the backlash is coming soon and I just don't think people get it (just for the record, I like Tim Goodman, I just think the end of the article misses the point of why reality TV is here). Sure, it is hip and PC to say how reality TV is some sort of unwanted scourge forced down our throats by network execs, but I think that misses the point entirely. Reality TV is not some sort of monster about to face a backlash. Reality television IS THE BACKLASH. For the last few decades the tv viewing audience has be fed a diet of crappy derivative sitcoms and even more derivative dramas. One guy puts up a court room drama and suddenly there are 10 of them out there. Hell, Law and Order and CSI have several versions of themselves alone. "News Magazine" programs do little but promote all this junk. So someone comes along and puts out something like Real World or Survivor and viewers say "Well that is different than what I have been watching" and the ratings rise. So now that is the new trend. And to all you arrogant writers out there, the viewers KNOW it is not "real". Viewers did not coin the term "reality tv", you guys did. People do not watch because they think it is "real". They watch because watching a bunch of average joes do stupid things is currently more entertaining than watching a bunch of second rate "actors" read stupid lines from bad scripts. As for the backlash, why should it come so soon? We had the sitcom and drama garbage (with the occasional M*A*S*H or Seinfeld helping us come up for air) for decades. Reality is not going anywhere until someone puts up something better. And as for the cries that this is putting 'creative' writers and professional actors out of work...GOOD! I SHOULD HOPE SO! Perhaps this purge will get a new breed to come up with better programing. (Ask HBO, finding decent actors and writing talent is not impossible). THEN, reality will give way to whatever is better.