You don't have to tell me - even Bill S: "and what's he then that says I play the villain?"

Unfortunately, the collective quality of our storytelling is waning. Most people watch the least common denominator.

So now the greater human truth you allude to is being filtered through the streaming age mode of storytelling, and people have arcs, and bingo cards, and everything is reduced to water-cooler levels of urgency and relevance.