I can’t agee more.
people who say this forget that the reads are not about some measurable quality but about popularity.
There is no rule that the highers quality stories with deep context worth pullizer price will automaticly get the highest number of reads.
It is like with films the most popular are often the steretipical blockbaster…and there is nothing wrong about it…I mean stories anyway use archetypes and clasical schemes most of the times…that is not bad that is how storry teling works how our brain process them…
like half of the faritails is about princes being saved by princ …it worked for hundred yeas of storitelling simply because such stories people did liked even it is cliche like hell thanks to it.
That doesnt make it bad story.