I think I'm ready to admit that games are not a storytelling medium. In the same way music is not a storytelling medium.
Music and games do tell stories. They can be good at it, but they don't need it to be. Arguably film and prose don't either but a very large audience would dislike it very much. It really is the cancer, for an artform to be compared to film. Much of the film critics and fans are very story-pilled in a way that misses out on filmmaking. Applying this mindset to music would be absurd, imagine picking on a concept album for abusing some tvtropes. Why aren't we allowed to do the same for games?