You're doing the thing again where you see some specific work or group of works do a thing and then assume that that's the "right" way to do them and that you're somehow Bad for not doing them in your own fiction.
I do this with music sometimes. It's not productive and it's the quickest path to having bum days where you get nothing done.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
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OTOH it has cool history tidbits