How do you even cope with Aristotle being a plotfag?

"The plot, then, is the first principle, and, as it were, the soul of a tragedy; Character holds the second place."
(Poetics, Chapter 6, 1450a38–39)

"Tragedy is an imitation not of men but of action and life, of happiness and misery. And life consists in action, and its end is a mode of activity, not a quality. Now character determines men's qualities, but it is by their actions that they are happy or the reverse... Hence the plot is the imitation of the action—for by plot I mean here the arrangement of the incidents."
(Poetics, Chapter 6, 1450a16–22)