Say goodbye to mass market paperbacks?

This is a paywalled article I think, but I feel like this news directly impacts romance readers.

Mass market paperbacks are the cheapest form of physical books, and are primarily reserved for genre titles. Having worked in bookstores and publishing fields, I know there are also drawbacks around returns and environmental impact but I can’t help but think this is a sad day for the romance novel.

MMPs aren’t entirely going away of course, but with the biggest distributor pulling out, their days might be numbered. Per the article, one of the remaining independent distributors is going to pull back as well and not do romance mass market sizes anymore, just mystery and cozies.

I’m sad that this will make buying romance more expensive at a time when we need low-cost escapism more than ever, and I am also personally sad on how this is going to fuck up my bookshelf organization with some series’s that I’ve been following for years.

Anyone else feel some kind of way about this?