I actually agree completely which is kind of why I get a little angry. I don’t really feel like everyone has to be evil for grimdark to function; You can just make the good people very very much not in power. Someone put it perfectly as “A bright light failing to illuminate the unbearable darkness is very grimdark” or something like that. The reason I get annoyed is because as a communist in real life I know things can be an utter trash world and good people still exist, they’re just stuck constantly trying to scrape away the massive pile of trash. But then, like you said, there’s something inspiring about how people continue to do that even when it seems pointless. Refusing to accept it has to be like this. So when the grimdark setting simply erases any such people like that from existence it’s very annoying.

And of course it’s still inspiring for like, the evil-but-not-as-evil faithful factions to be also maybe trying to internally struggle to improve but continually failing due to internal reactionary sentiment but people continue to try, but idk why people seem to never think of including that in their grimdark settings. It’s like libs get scared about the idea of admitting mostly good people exist in hellworld because it makes them realize they might not be one of those.