Yeah, honestly this occurred to me recently but as sort of a feeling I couldn't place in words, that familiarity of it. You phrased it well. I'm pretentious enough that in my writing that I show my friend (who is WAY more into writing than me) for criticism, I pretty much subvert expectations nonstop. The book is satire, which is good because if it wasn't, I'm sure that constantly pulling the "lol THIS but different!" card with tropes would get annoying. In my own head I think I internalized "Why copy/paste anything", which has helped me a lot with making my story enjoyable (At least as far as I can tell, I try to be my worst critic). In reality, genre-fiction has tropes. I doubt I will be the man to change that. Maybe it's just that I don't get why anyone would want to be a "genre-fiction" writer, but I'll have to think more about that because the idea isn't fully formed.

While I am bothered by it, I'm not more bothered by it than I am excited to see where this leads for her. My internet complaint is just venting, and less even about her than it is just tiredness of seeing woke stuff everywhere. I get that it's juvenile to be like "UGH GO AWAY WOKE GO AWAY WOKE" because there will always be ideas I disagree with, but I'm just so bored of it all and it seems to be unavoidable. I think that's mostly what bothers me about it. I feel like woke stuff gives me a headache at this point. I think I'd like to just forget that trends exist and live in the woods somewhere with Amish people or something.