I've dived back into anime recently because of the aggressive sameness of everything on streaming TV. I don't know whether something changed about how "western"

I've dived back into anime recently because of the aggressive sameness of everything on streaming TV. I don't know whether something changed about how "western" media is written or I've just watched so much TV that I can't help but roll my eyes at commonly deployed tropes. At the risk of outing myself as a huge "weeb", I find anime still manages to surprise and entertain me where western programming does not.