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I agree with you to a certain point. I think that instead of stopping the production of teen shows, they should make the shows more appropriate for teens. I think everyone can agree that the shows about teens now are not even close to what an average teen goes through in day-to-day life. It seems that every single show is very uncomfortably sexually charged, everyone is participating in underage drinking and drug use, and most of the characters are wildly irresponsible and pretty insufferable. Though this drama might be entertaining for some people, it also sets a very dangerous standard for preteens and teens who are either transitioning into high school or current high school students who are looking for some sort of guide to "fitting in" with their peers. I think changing the way these teen shows are made would be the better way to go about this situation because these shows would still be appealing to the teen audience while also providing healthy standards for how their teenage years should look like.
I understand that some people might find this alternative boring but I think they just don't understand that there are other ways to make a show good and worth the watch without adding all the really creepy underage sex, drug, and alcohol use. In my personal opinion, if someone thinks that they have to include those three subjects in a teen show for it to be good, they're just not great writers.
In conclusion / tl;dr, I think they should create more shows that show a healthy depiction of what a teen goes through rather than the Hollywood version where everyone's a trainwreck.
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Have you considered that most adults are working and teenagers have more screen time, so catering to their needs is more profitable? >

I actually think people in their twenties have more time to watch tv, high schoolers (atleast in my country) have to study all the time (even on weekends)
I can say for myself that I have way more free time at age 20 then I did in high school >

Do you think the average 16(mid teens) year old has less screen time than an average early 20s person? >

Yes >

Are you from an upper middle class family... >

God damn you called him out hard >

Young adults are at the time in their lives when they are most busy. Collage, university, trade schools, starting work and often working as much as they can. Pre-covid at least busy social lives. They just don't have the same amount of time to spend watching tv as teenagers do. >

i had so much more free time in college >

So first off there are plenty of shows already about people at pretty much any age group, and in any of those shows you may very well have a 38 year old playing 30, or a 27 year old playing 35, it doesnt really matter. 
With teen shows, there are laws limiting how long, and what hours, a minor can work, as well as needing a guardian present to make certain decisions. 
So if I hire a 20 year old, they can work 12 hour days. We can film a night scene at night, it might take 6 hours to shoot, so we can shoot from 9pm-3am, which we can't do with a 15 year old.
The other issue with actual teenagers is it can be quite difficult to predict how they are going to physically develop. So if you go away for 4 months for summer break, all of a sudden when you come back and one of your stars has changed, you may have to retool the dynamics of your show that you've spent 3 seasons developing, or actually throw out some scripts that the writers spent weeks or months working on. The likelihood of a 22 year old developing physically in a short time span, is pretty low. 
Also, I think many adults watch shows about teens, they are not geared specifically towards teens. Typically you want as broad an appeal as possible if you want to keep a show running. The 25 or 35, etc. year olds are probably not going to watch a show with 15 year old leads, where as even the teens are just as likely, even more so maybe,  to watch a show with 20 something leads. >

A couple of points here:


"Young adult" is often used as a substitute for "teen", at least when it comes to books. The audience is teens, and they know it, but advertising as "teen" may turn off teens. So they call it "young adult" instead.


Aren't most shows not focused on a family or explicitly high school, young adult shows? New Girl features people in their 20's. The cast of Friends were in their 20's. One Tree Hill did a time jump and followed the same people, five years or so removed from high school, placing them in the same category that you're referring to. Then you have shows featuring young adults just figuring it out, but it's embedded in another show. 911 features Buck, who goes through a lot of young adult stuff. >

First of all, they do make a lot of young adult shows. A lot. Second of all, clearly you are watching these teen shows. But teens tend not to like to watch things with people who are too much older. So it makes sense to have shows about teens the most. >

Can you name five young adults shows? >

The Magicians
Shadowhunters 
Tom Swift
The Sex Lives of College Girls
Community
Jane the Virgin
A lot of shows on the CW, such as the Flash and Supernatural
Plus a ton of animes to boot >

But how many of those shows (aside from Jane the virgin) have any mainstream success? I personally haven’t heard of any of those shows (aside from, again, Jane the virgin) >

Doesn't this argument pretty much invalidate your point?
They aren't popular. Why would anyone make more of them?
These media companies have a huge amount of knowledge and experience about what is most popular. >

I half agree since I remember watching that Regular Show cartoon with my nephew when I was going to college. Despite being a kids cartoon it did a surprisingly great job of showing the joys and the trials of being a young adult.
But still, unlike teenagers, most adults live dramatically different lives. Sure some of us either work, find our own place, go to College or all 3, but aside from that our lives become more freeform once we leave High School. It's harder to make a plot that relates to most young adults without an exceptionally good writer than it is with teenagers since High School is mandatory so all teenagers can relate to that lifestyle.
And like other posters said, were all just extremely around that period of life lol. >

Many stories are set using teen characters because they are physically mature and appear adult-ish, can do pretty much anything an adult can do, yet they don't have work or family responsibilities in the same way as an older person. 
And people of all ages watch it to live vicariously through that. >

But that doesn't have to necessarily come at the teen shows' expense, it's just that stuff like teacher-student romances should get relegated to college shows like Community while writers learn teen shows don't have to be edgy to be taken more seriously than your typical Disney Channel sitcom >

Have you considered that your interests have changed after growing up and you don't like teen shows anymore? 
Probably there aren't many young adults watching TV these days >

The average person loses their virginity between ages 16-17, on average. Most of those kids aren't talking to their parents about things like dating. The average age for a first date is 12 and a half for girls and 13 and a half for boys. 
Do you really want them to be looking at shows geared toward twentysomethings instead of something for their age range? >

12 and 13 year olds are going on proper dates? Jeez. >

More like meeting up at the mall or something like that. They’re not going out to Ruth’s Chris.