"I don't want fiction to be petty validation fantasies.
Now that I'm an adult and have been utterly broken, I only want the meanest, grittiest stories, populated only by monsters and losers.
Why are you smiling?"
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I went thru a period in my 20s where I read gritty. Now I don't, mostly, because yeah, I've been broken a couple times. I don't need to read gritty, I live that shit. (Nor do I need to read existential despair, I can have as much of that as I want, whenever I want.)
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I read/watch gritty (and other things). I enjoy it.
But I note how often peope use dark stories to reify their cynicism (while attacking stories w/different tone).
It's a bit pathetic, really.
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Got tired of it. I think I broke completely on a certain style when I read a fantasy novel which starts with the hero (and the author definitely presented him as a hero, if a dark one) was torturing because he wanted information on an item for his hobby.
Uhhh
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Style is one thing, the weird pathology evident in many writers another - but I can understand your aversion.
I can't watch comedy shows because I am tired of Overtly Narcissistic Protagonist being presented as sympathetic.
It's as with Woody Allen films and paedophilia.