This is definitely true of things like Top Gun as well. People are hungry for something new and good, and are willing to settle for decent.

Its probably a "broken clock is right twice a day" thing but I really enjoyed CODA, the best picture winner. It is a bit formulaic, yes, but it did a magnificent job of showing that family dynamic of "we hate each other sometimes, but we sacrifice for each other without (much) resentment" -- characters are fully fleshed out, even the mother who could have very easily teetered into "dumb jealous bimbo."

I hope that some day we look back on the Marvel Age and see it as the wasteland of originality that it really and truly was.