An all-TTS audiobook offering is just about as appealing as an all-stable-diffusion picture gallery (that is, not at all).
To me, what you're saying is the same as saying the art of a movie is in the script, the video is just the method of making it available. And I don't think that's a valid take
So yes, I mostly agree with GP. An audiobook is a different rendering of the same subject. The content is in the text, regardless of whether it's delivered in written or oral form.
It's just too flat/dead compared to a human reader.