Questionable Questing

"if you isekai and you have a cheat, and your ambitions are still the same, isn't that a waste of an isekai?"

Why? Isn't this the isekai getting exactly what they wanted?

For example, someone isekais with the ambition of just chilling throughout life without doing anything spectacular. After you gain the powers of a superhero, you're still staying in a small one room apartment, then isn't that a waste, when you can be Homelander? Or at worst, be a Superman?

I'm just reading this one story, this dude is in his thirties, and he says he's lost that youthful fire, and he just wants to be a happy wage slave. But it's not like being a management position like Tanya, but just... an office worker, right? And then he gets the power of "if more people believe what I say, then it comes true"... and he just sticks to his routine, I almost threw my tablet out

Maybe, but some people manage that illusive "I'm content with my life as it is" which is difficult to find. Of course it doesn't make for an engaging story, but as a moral parable it's pretty good.

I'm content with my life as it is, but I can imagine that this is only because I lack power, authority, influence, etc. to expand my horizons. It's just like how most people can be considered good, but that's just because you haven't given them the power to be corrupt, right?

I'm not arguing that humans are inherently evil or whatever, I'm just saying, according the statistics, sociology, anthropology, this is how the majority of people are like... though what I'm talking about isn't "evil" but "corruption" as in perhaps indulging in desires and urges, or maybe a sort of selfishness. The portrayed "contentness" in stories tend to be... too oblivious?