I have a hypothesis people seek out in fiction what is missing in their life. If everything is going well, people seek out cathartic drama. If everything is going poorly, they seek out cathartic resolution. Part of why people are so into things like comic book stories is how they usually have a clearly defined villain, problem, and solution, while much of our world right now doesn’t feel like there are any solutions to the problems, or the solutions are so complex people can’t understand them, or even the solutions seem like problems in themselves.