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It's pretty shit yeah. It's like he's just randomly god, and he gets to do a wish fulfillment revenge in the most violent way against the most comically evil people who have no reason to be that way

So it's like every other Isekais written in the post-SAO era. Shield Hero is similar and mid-SAO era, and it's also pretty bad in hindsight. Mushoku Tensei is actually good and was early-SAO. I don't think it predates SAO, but they started around the same time, and MT was actually already big in Japan, which is why it got such a high quality anime adaptation.

Basically what I mean to say it, SAO is to blame some way or another. It drove the wish fulfillment demand so far up the butt because people loved the idea of escapism more than many realized