I'm not disagreeing on that. I'm just saying that's pretty normal for the industry.

I was there in the 00s when every god damned thing was trying to be the next slice of life hit, where the escapism was the mangaka wanted his harem of cute girls that all loved his generic protag.

Many of which had interesting ideas somewhere, but attached the cliche parts anyway. One of those interesting ones was Oreimo, which became its own genre of "slice of life harem, but incest is the center."