Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway

"sometimes the forms of “conservatism” that readers are noticing are historically inaccurate and bog down the book, and also are missing opportunities to be interesting"
Yes this yes. The stories I wrote when I was 12 were based entirely on what other books set in places like that had said about that kind of world--stories I write now should not necessarily do that. (The first draft still might, though. Because it's impossible to research everything before you start writing.)