once upon a time, people created stories about fantastic settings, like ones involving elves and dwarves etc. or ones involving space travel and other futuristic tech etc. because they thought these were unfamiliar and "other" to creators and their audiences

but now

people have been creating such stories for so long, and kept themselves and each other in the loop about them so much, that these fantastic stories have, ironically, themselves become the familiar.

so now you get people "playing off" fantasy and sci-fi and other tropes the same way people play off real life, basing things on audience expectations of various tropes, and so on

meanwhile, though, the quality that characterized such fantastic stories in the first place -- their unfamiliarness -- seems lost?  at least, enough for people to endlessly try to put their own spin on things, but the "idea space" for novelty is diminishing, which results in people eventually attempting to build their ideas on the backs of others rather than building them on the same fundamentals as the first such stories did

so then after a while you get tropes playing on tropes playing on tropes

is there a space for a "trope-naïve" perspective?  or is that now relegated to "children's" stories, while "adults'" stories inevitably have to involve complexity, nuance, and intentional avoidance of cliche or else it suffers an image problem?

what would happen if someone simply insisted that such space exists?  what if someone were to create without the weight of such collective cultural experience?  or what if someone would defy these cultural experiences and go against what is believed to be the acceptable course of things, by insisting that being "cliché" and "plain" is not bad at all?

what if one insisted that the "ordinary" was itself extraordinary for the same reasons that it was decades ago? and fought back against this sort of "extraordinaryness inflation"

is there a way to "un-spoil" ourselves so that what was once seen as a wonder can be seen as a wonder again?  and i don't mean the specific work where such a thing exists, being put on a pedestal that no one understands anymore after a while, but i mean the ideas inside such a work.