But to be honest, isn't this also true of the basic Hollywood or Netflix fare?.

I've been watching season 5 of Stranger Things. It has a budget of approximately 1 gazillion dollars. The writing is utterly basic predictable, boring, cliché, it's either a marvel-tier quip or a hollywood trope. Most Netflix shovelware isn't better than this.

So I don't think it's unique to video games :)