I feel like this particular problem is Konosuba's fault. It just got really popular as a video game isekai and any anime that becomes popular defines its genre for the next decade or so.

It is a weird evolution. People noticed plot holes and wrote fanfiction where they munchkined the powers stem and that was more fun to than the original work. So instead of writing better worlds they just got in on the fun of making fun of their own terrible worlds.

LitRPG can be good but them merging with Isekai really fucking brought out the worst in both genres

if the story isn't about 'oooh wow this is like that one video game i played...i know how to powergame this civilization into basically becoming my sex slaves' it is always something equivalent to 'i was put in this world and i'm the only one who actually knows how to use these spells/skills/game mechanics that this civilization i was dropped into has been apparently living with for centuries!'

Like fine, you wanna throw a goddamn Status screen at me out of the blue with numbers, skill descriptions, and damage equations - fine. I will happily flip past that because god knows it'll be mentioned again when its actually needed. Just actually make the story about something other than 'wow this is a world with skills and stats exactly like an RPG!'

The only isekai/LitRPG stories I've read/watched in the last five/six years that have been actually decent are: The Salamanders (this one's just pure litrpg and honestly more about trauma, friendship, etc with a 'teenagers at a school to learn how to be dungeon explorers & live in a fantasy world where you can 'level up'' setting), Wandering Inn (more isekai than litrpg but actually well written for being a web-serial. still suffers from the cliche 'wow people from earth are so much stronger than literal world-powers' and 'we still have phones/technology and can repair/charge them with magic' but thankfully the author has avoided the worst of it), and The Gods Are Bastards (which gets way more praise than it should, but was genuinely super well written with an interesting cast of characters and worldbuilding...up until the author decided that they were gonna have the kitsune and dryads both be the races created by...drumroll the people from earth who created the whole world and essentially became the first gods :very-intelligent: there's even a light-sabre that gets used!! wow!! thankfully the author put it on a never-ending hiatus pretty soon after that.)

All that to say, isekai/litrpg sucks and I read a ton of them :ursus-hexagonia: