Ask a modern sci-fi writer how something works and their answer will boil down to "space magic".
This is what I hate about both modern science and modern fantasy.
The era of tring to make consistent, coherent, believable worlds is long gone and the very concept of Verisimilitude is basically dead.
Writers no longer care about how their world would actually function, or the short or long term implications of anything they do.
The worst part is if you dare question any of it the comeback is always "Bro, there's spaceships and magic, you think those are realistic too?" to dismiss any issues you have with it.
They don't seem to understand the difference between "realistic", "plausible", "Verisimilitude" and most importantly "Consistent".
I know this is a cold take, but I blame "diversity" as the root of all this. The incessant need to shove blacks and women everywhere and especially in places where they didn't belong in the name of inclusion just opened up the door to completely abolish internal and external consistency of invented worlds because at that point the message was more important than the story itself and all else followed.
After that you didn't have to justify anything in your story and that's how we got to where we are now.
Yes, I'm sure your medieval european kingdom has 2 black lesbian queens, a deaf general and a blind captain, and I'm sure your mediterranean island kingdom is 50% black men with the military and police being 50% women.
Once we reached the point where writers stopped needing to justify the inner workings of their worlds, it was naturally going to go downhill from there.