Now don't get me wrong, standard qualifier from an avid anime watcher, yes, isekai fantasy anime was always generally considered pretty trash. I consider it the junk food of anime where you know it's terrible for you but you kind of watch it anyway and I've sometimes found it entertaining because the studios redeem the shows with decent character writing and backstories.
The last couple of shows overall have been so bad it's surprising and it's almost woke levels of shittiness and I hope this is just a blip because it's summer anime but how do you manage to fuck up such a basic premise as making an interesting fantasy story? It doesn't have to be original or even amazing, just make it decent. I'm seeing the newer stuff come out and it's like they've shamelessly copy-pasted scenes and plastered them onto the new characters and their budget is clearly very low because you've got the poorly rendered 3D monsters problem again.
Maybe Frieren raised my expectations way too much but even by Isekai trash anime standards it's been a particularly poor showing at the moment. Once you notice all the shit they do to cut corners in animation like literal slideshow scenes with audio ( It's usually a hotspring scene or they're 'wandering' around a market ) it's really hard to unsee it and I despise studios that do this.
Trash is always a subset of anime. Sometimes there's more of it, sometimes there's less. I don't think just because there's a fair bit of trash fantasy/isekai this season means it's all going downhill or that we're all doomed.
If anything, it might just mean there's less focus on isekai, which could even be a good thing. This is just a few studios churning out trash in a genre that was oversaturated. It's just like in video games; there have been times were FPS's, for example, were super popular, and got churned out all the time, then the good ones gave up on it, and we were left with trash.
Also, just out of curiosity, what animes you are objecting to?
I Parry Everything and Hazurewaku instantly made me cringe, I hope there's a shift away from isekai for sure, they've milked that style of anime until dust is coming out. Never really expected those types of anime to be good but again from a technical standpoint I was surprised at how bad they were. Oh and yes, the OP hero tropes have been a thing for awhile too, some are okay, but I Parry Everything just seemed to be as mentioned in the OP copy-pasting scenes from other shows.
"I Parry Everything" is the latest in the line of manga/anime with a retarded premise that pretends it makes the OC an underdog, like "In this world where a man's value is based on how fast he can make a girl cum, all I have is this lousy ability to find the G spot without fail!" that's insulting to the audience's intelligence.
Most isekai/RPGlite, are written so stupidly it's like they never even played a videogame they claim to be based off of. Shield Hero, Redo of Healer, Bofuri, etc.
Yeah whodathunk that parrying, one of the fundamentals of swordsmanship, could be useful!
The genre has been scraping the bottom of the barrel for awhile now. It speaks volumes that isekai/regression/cultivation have only managed to produce a handful of actually good series (and not the equivalent of "it tastes good if you close your eyes and eat around the nasty bits) in the last 15 freaking years.
If the genre is heavily saturated, then we should have seen a plethora of high quality entries among all the junk due to sheer volume, but instead it's been a swamp of derivative, unimaginative garbo.