Unfortunately I've come across that kind of writing so often in fiction that I basically learned to take it in stride. It's very hard to find a series that doesn't eventually involve self-insert / Mary Sue characters, or trying to wax poetic about how the series is a mirror to the real world (as the author sees it (I personally blame Star Trek for that one, it's always been woven into the fabric of the franchise)), or the author comes across as just smelling their own farts a little too much.

Even Orson Scott Card did that shit, I found most of the Ender's Game novels to be incurious trash.

Rama is probably one of the greatest science fiction novels ever written and ended up weird as hell (though Arthur C. Clark had nothing to do with the books past Rama 2).

Kingkiller Chronicles is insanely overrated, it's literally "adventures of man who can do everything" and tries to hide behind 'unreliable narrator' to explain it.

The character Lift in Stormlight is definitely a 'smelling your own farts' moment. Nobody fucking likes Lift. She uses anachronistic language and feels like someone told him "hey it'd be great if you wrote a character that exclusively appeals to 40 year old fat girls who were really big fans of Invader Zim".

Unfortunately I've come across that kind of writing so often in fiction that I basically learned to take it in stride. It's very hard to find a series that doesn't eventually involve self-insert / Mary Sue characters, or trying to wax poetic about how the series is a mirror to the real world (as the author sees it (I personally blame Star Trek for that one, it's always been woven into the fabric of the franchise)), or the author comes across as just smelling their own farts a little too much.

Even Orson Scott Card did that shit, I found most of the Ender's Game novels to be incurious trash.

Rama is probably one of the greatest science fiction novels ever written and ended up weird as hell (though Arthur C. Clark had nothing to do with the books past Rama 2).

Kingkiller Chronicles is insanely overrated, it's literally "adventures of man who can do everything" and tries to hide behind 'unreliable narrator' to explain it.