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It's not even that i do hate all dark fantasy, i like it else i would't read Glen Cook or the 40k slop (i hate the wh fantasy books for some reason though). It's i've been tired by total takeover of the genre in last 40 years with no signs of any change. Also lack of imagination and "rozmach" (no idea of the word in english, something between momentum and epicness and scale, for example Black Company series have it perfectly balanced) in most books.
I feel the same way; I do enjoy some dark stories sometimes but for fuck's sake the "this isn't cookie cutter sunshine and rainbows" pitch is decades stale now. No one told the edgelords that the new "cookie cutter" is grimdark shit.