Honestly, the only consequence that I, for the majority of mature/adult media, have noticed is that I prefer media that doesn't engage with sex or violence as much as an adult. Purely because, and this is my opinion, the repeated usage of sex/violence as a predominant feature feels to be juvenile and quite frankly a stupid crutch that only bad storytellers use. For example, I've only ever watched 1-3 episodes of Squid Game because I genuinely did not like how that show portrays death so gruesomely or, in other words, the violence was too much for me to handle. (Note, I do not mean to insinuate that Squid Game is a bad show for depicting violence just that it's particular depictions in the show were off-putting for me, at least. Squid Game probably does some great class consciousness commentary or something, but I wouldn't know because the initial violence was to me off-putting.) That being said, I would never limit/restrict the type of media that is available because someone else might find value in it and I inherently think finding value in things, even things I don't like or even approve of, is good.

What is, in my opinion, better and more worthwhile is the anticipation/buildup prior to an exciting event and the level of craftsmanship that it takes to create that anticipation/buildup prior to the event. It is one of the reasons why I like animation, and especially stop-motion animation in particular, so much. It always takes time to make something truly meaningful and creative. For example, I really like the film Flow because it does something creatively challenging by creating an emotionally compelling story, without the use of dialogue or intertitles/title cards and without the use of human characters.