I think it's because there are a *lot* of really bad Tolkien-esque prologues, especially in 80s and 90s fantasy, of the form "Here are the circumstances of the hero's birth at tedious length" or "Here is some myth/lore stuff about the creation or the world".
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The trick with prologues is that you have to take great care that the stuff in them is *intrinsically interesting*, because the audience doesn't care about any of the characters and you're not working to build that yet.
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