It feels like no stories that touch the cultural consciousness are ever Whole. There's a lot of reasons for that, mostly related to "multiple people worked on this and there were deadlines and the story got changed multiple times before release" that cause stories to become muddy and lose potency. But those excuses can only go so far, because compounded on top of those is the fact that it's just that it just feels like... people don't give a shit if writing is good? It feels like people don't care about extraneous Information or meaningless plot details because they only care about "the meat" of it, which is so insulting to the entire concept of story telling that it makes my blood fucking boil. Authors should be trying their hardest to expand their art form, push the boundaries of what stories can even be, but it feels like we're doing the opposite. Circling the drain, seeing how far we can get by using as many words to say as little as possible