> Most people just want to watch movies, laugh, cry. They don’t even know about the culture war.

That is true. It also means that if you are going to proselytise, you're going to lose the audience who just want to be entertained.

I think more people care than you think, but they might not realize that identity politics (or politics in general) are what’s making a show worse. Star Trek: Picard’s latest season was terrible in many ways, but it seemed like the entire plot was made just so the show runners could say “ICE bad. Global Warming scary.”

That’s all well and dandy if you have an actual point to make, but they didn’t. There was no nuance because in their minds any deviation from those political beliefs are evil.