The Plot versus Yellowface

I read R.F. Kuang's Yellowface over the summer after seeing a million recommendations for it. This week I randomly downloaded an audiobook of The Plot, by Jean Hanff Korelitz, while I was running at the gym and needed something to listen to. I didn't realize The Plot was published first and was shocked by the similarities to Yellowface. Now I see that it was published two years earlier than Yellowface and it strikes me as bizarre and weird that Yellowface could even get published. The two are soooo similar — and to top it off, they're both about writers stealing ideas from other writers? Has R F. Kuang acknowledged the similarities, does anyone know? I couldn't seem to find anything.