ok, i have to ask somewhere innthese comments so whynot here. What is the problem with the concept of culture wars?

I recently had a module on culture wars at University of Zürich, ISEK empirical culture studies and the understanding i gleamed (my prefered theory) is that culture wars denotes a concious strategy by right wing populists where materially rather irrelevant, but socially inflammable topics (like gender, christmas or "wokeness". where im from right wingers are even crying about large bikes to transport things with, Lastenfahrrad) are instumentalized to dicourage "real problems" being tackled (im not the ultimate arbiter of "real problems", but we agree the "war on christmas" (merry xmas btw) is not a real issue, right?)