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You didn't even address anything I said but rather just doubled down on the "higher-tier recreational activity to expand one's mind and worldview" which is just a convenient way to reframe the issue to your advantage.
But the problem is that it puts the author in an intrinsically higher position than the audience. It's a bad framing because it portrays the audience as retards that are just meant to slurp up and let themselves be influenced by whatever the author dishes out.
This becomes apparent as a flawed framing when you consider how authors often include ideological/political propaganda in their fiction and use it to try to manipulate the audience to their own ideological worldview via a "lesson" in fiction. So you need to critically assess the contents, but if they have such hostile intent of manipulating the audience then these so-called "lessons" are a net-negative putting them below the so-called ""escapism"", so "having life-lessons" in it doesn't intrinsically make fiction superior to others.
What people get out of fiction is ultimately an audience-side thing, whether you just slurp up the contents or think critically about it is up to the audience, not the author, so the very idea that a writer is the one to "induce escapism" (the way you define it) is simply bullshit, they can only steer the ship in terms of preventing internal inconsistencies that take you out of the story or try to make it as empathic to as large an audience as possible, but they can't actually control the mindset of the audience.
What's really rich with accusations against isekai is that the self-proclaimed "non-audience" claims to know best how the supposed "actual escapist" audience ""surely"" think when reading/watching isekai. Where does that confidence come from?
My earlier post gave an explanation for that. Yours doesn't and your argument is even a level below that "non-audience" I mentioned as you don't even acknowledge the audience as a participant in this.
