I see the appeal but that appeal doesn’t apply to me.

They took the Metroid out of my Metroidvania and replaced it with Dark Souls, and that just rubs me wrong.

I like some Souls-likes (Elden Ring, Lies of P, and Lords of the Fallen reboot are some of my favorite games) but I don’t like souls design creeping into my other genres that don’t need it, especially when some of the mechanics are antithetical to the genre (looking at you corpse runs).