it's my personal belief that as fantasy became more mainstream, people started adding more things they could relate to. Yeah sure at first it was racial diversity and stuff and no shut up diversity is fine. The issue really came when they started melding more of their own reality to the fantasy to create a sort of idealized world, one where you can go on dates to a fancy but affordable cafe then adventure and fight against morally unambiguous villains. The fantasy of monsters and magic is getting muddled with the fantasy of healthy polycules and livable wages. The true solution is to fix society but the realistic solution is to try and unmudddle modern tropes from medieval fantasy.

Or plot out a realistic history for your fantasy world to explain why transbian mall rats double as demon hunters/daters instead of going "uhh uhh THEY JUST ARE, OK???"