I believe people process violence in media differently. I'm not necessarily drawn to it, so MK11 isn't on my list of games to play. But it also doesn't affect me beyond the knee jerk.

Even though these deaths are "photo realistic", the context is not. The clean limp bodies of the pets I've owned have haunted me a million times more than anything I've seen in MK. That's how I know death. Just a lifeless body. The spectacle of gory violence doesn't really connect with my experiences of death.

Sorry if your own experiences have been different.