AITAH for believing that Isekai’s (and pretty much any “shonen,” show) are intellectually draining and not worth watching?

Let me start this off with sharing, I know opinions are like assholes; we all have them. But this isn’t so much an opinion as it is an objectively true thing in my head.

I am a person who enjoys having my brain stimulated, and I typically can’t shut it off; and as such, every single show I watch I can’t help but deep dive analyze all of it. Story, characters, backgrounds, etc.

I am very well aware not everyone is like this, and as such, never hold anyone to that same standard. But I cannot wrap my head around watching a show (or movie) to simply shut off your brain and not think about what you are consuming media wise.

Shows that tend to copy paste ideas bore me, Isekai’s being a huge perpetrator of this concept; almost every one of them I’ve been made to watch by a friend feels like a mad lib project.

It always comes down to:

I became NOUN in another world

The backgrounds of the world are nearly the same, the characters all make me want to jump off a bridge and the story is always some nonsense about how “Wow, he got powers no one else can get watch me do things that break the fabric of this reality.”

It feels like the joke statement of: “Hey can I copy your homework and change a few small things so they don’t catch us?”

I’ve been trying to shut my brain off to enjoy these shows, because a friend of mine watches a TON of these shows; he’s currently watching nine of them (in his words) over the last month alone. I’m trying to understand how he can enjoy things that are so mind numbing they borderline on mind destructive.

Don’t get me wrong, I do enjoy flashing fights and such; I’m not saying I don’t get the simplistic things, one of my favorite shows of all time can be labeled as: “Show with minimal story and somewhat good fighting.”

But at least, the characters in that show feel like they have souls to them. (The show is called RWBY, which isn’t the best show of all time I know but at least you can feel the care.) But Isekai’s and shonen all feel designed to appeal to children (shonen being literally made for children) and feel like shareholders make these shows soulless cash grabs.