Has the YA genre ever been anything but garbage? I don't remember ever reading something in the YA that I liked, but admittedly, I didn't read too much of them, either. When I was a teenager, I just read the old adult books.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell