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Game of thrones was huge not because it had big flashy battle sequences and dragons but because it was a really intense political drama about flawed people abusing their power. Those stories are really hard to tell.
I think that's mostly it. You could replace the fantasy setting with squabbling nobles in Renaissance Italy, and if it leaned into the political intrigue / cloak-and-dagger stuff and was well executed , it could do great numbers.
Which ones are hard to tell, the dragon stories or the political dramas? For prestige TV writers the latter is probably easier because it's similar to a lot of things that's already in that the genre, and I think part of why the latter TV shows fails was because they tried to go for the game of thrones-y political drama angle when the source material doesn't lend itself to it.