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I do think there's a good argument, especially in nonfiction, that many longer books could just be replaced by articles ("this is a book that could be an article" is like "this is a meeting that could have been an email")
yes. 100%.
Tho peeps get less cred for it. Under the model that books are expensive business cards (much like university degrees are signals for discipline and hard work), your story doesn't work anymore... articles don't get you that book-like kudos
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I've been reading short articles thanks to newspapers and magazines for 50+ years, so I don't think it's about that. Reading articles is a separate skill (and scratches a separate itch) from deep reading.
I do think there's a good argument, especially in nonfiction, that many longer books could just be replaced by articles ("this is a book that could be an article" is like "this is a meeting that could have been an email"), and the online world makes this easier (as opposed to when the choices were short encyclopedia articles or full books, with not nearly as much in between).
But reading Gatsby or Master and Margarita is simply different from reading articles on any website.