The golden age of sci-fi was fuelled by the anticipation of the future. We ARE living in the future, just a watered down and bland version of it, the kind that moved in a direction barely any major sci-fi writer has managed to foresee. People want escapism, fantasy provides it, sci-fi doesn't. Isekai in particular is a therapy for modern generation.
Writing a sci-fi story requires far more from the writer, unless they dilute sci-fi elements until they are indistinguishable from the fantasy. And sci-fi aesthetics on their own are usually not enough to carry the interest.

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Anon, I don't know what to tell you ....