Fantasy flight has released a new game and labeled it a Descent game.
They made a very expensive game, with horrible art. The hero selection has no male human/ dwarf fighter characters, no white human male characters at all. The only character that is manly is a black wizard dude that I admit is kind of cool. The male elf ranger character is the most pathetic looking character that they could have designed.
In previous games Fantasy Flight made it a thing to have both male and female represented in their games. The Descent Second Edition game had 1 male and 1 female of every class. You had male fighters and female fighters, male mages and female mages etc. Now in a game that is a freaking 175$ they decided to not include the most popular characters, male human fighters and male dwarf fighters. Their Descent player base is as you expect white and male but they decided to not include it at all in their game.
Sorry for the rant.
Had to make a small edit: One of the characters Vaerix, the Dragon-Hybrid Outcast has neutral pronouns. Cause of course they does.
I actually kind of agree with that. Previous descent games are one vs many and both sides tried to win no matter what, is not like in DnD where the dungeon master tries to make the players have fun. You have 2-4 playing as heroes and 1 overlord that controls the monsters and a secret card deck full of tricks like buffing monsters or traps for the heroes.. The game becomes intense, people getting mad and every dice seems to count.
Coop games are kind of boring and predictable and the story will never be as good as an old RPG game, but it sadly looks to be what everyone wants.
Specific game system aside, a DM has the responsibility of keeping everyone engaged and having fun, yes. Don't misunderstand "fun", though. Fun is different for everyone. If fun for you is high tension and high stakes with no guarantees from your allies, you can make that happen with a cooperative DM and player group. Finding such a group is the trick, though, and you'd have to find a system that supports those traits in order to have a better kickstart to your search.
From my point of view, it makes sense that people go to pnp for the casual type of escapist fun. They probably have stressful daily lives with regular misery, so of course their game time is going to be in pursuit of the opposite.
Tell your DM to step his game up, then. If he can't keep you engaged, tell him to let you run a session.