It's sad that entertainment by violence and combat are the drivers for things like this.

I wonder what far reaching higher order effects come from this selection bias. Is it just a feedback cycle that could be broken? The makers of high budget world-building projects are self-selected for this kind of content, leading to consumers acclimating and demanding more of this, etc. It's already leaking out of the games world: there's a major shift in Hollywood movies to superhero movies centered around video game-style combat.